Jan. 3, 1933 Credit: Courtesy of UMMC Dr. Aaron Shirley was born in Gluckstadt, Mississippi. Before he could pronounce the word “doctor,” his mother had declared that he would be one. “She was a widow with eight children who worked as a nurse’s aide and a domestic,” he recalled in an interview with The Clarion-Ledger. “My father died when I was 16 or 17 months old. I don’t remember him. But he did leave my mother with property.” She sold the property off, piece by piece, to pay for the education of all her children. After completing medical school in Tennessee, Shirley returned to Mississippi. He joined the civil rights movement, and his family’s home was bombed in
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