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<span class="big"> Ulysses S. Wiggins</span><br>
<span class="subhead"> 1897-1966 </span>
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<span class="subhead">Physician and Civil Rights Champion</span>
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Born in Americus Georgia of former slaves Hannah and Randall Wiggins, Ulysses
S. Wiggins went on to graduate from the University of Michigan Medical School
in 1924 and arrived in Camden, NJ in 1928. Dr. Wiggins became affiliated
with Cooper Hospital and served as a physician, school examiner and highway department
surgeon. He was also president of the Camden County branch of the NAACP
for a quarter century and served on the association's national board.<b></b>
<p><b>Source: </b>"Dr. Ulysses S. Wiggins." [obituary] <i>Journal of the Medical
Society of New Jersey. 63:215, June 1966.</i><i></i>
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