Interview: Gaither, Cornelius, 2014
Item
- Resource class
- Interview
- Title
- Interview: Gaither, Cornelius, 2014
- Type
- Interview
- Interviewee
- Gaither, Cornelius
- Birth Year
- 1928
- Birth Place
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Interviewer
- Illingworth, Shaun
- Location Created
- West Deptford, New Jersey
- Date Created
- 31 January 2014
- Abstract
- Dr. Cornelius E. Gaither was born in Philadephia in 1928. He attended an all black elementary schooll in West Chester, Pennsylvania before attending an integrated high school. Gaither attended Lincoln University in 1945 and went on to Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee to earn his doctorate degree in Dental Surgery. He joined the Air Force in 1955 and spent three years an oral surgeon in Germany. Gaither retired in 1987 having served over thirty years in the Reserves.
- Collection
- Rutgers Oral History Archives
- Repository
- Rutgers Oral History Archives (ROHA) at Rutgers University–New Brunswick
- Rights
- Permission to quote from this transcript must be obtained from the Rutgers Oral History Archives.
- Identifier
- ROHA-Gaither
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