Solomon Carter Fuller, M.D., a Black Mental Health Pioneer

Solomon Carter Fuller, M.D., the first known Black psychiatrist in America and an early pioneer in the fight against Alzheimer's. Dr. Fuller collaborated with Dr. Alois Alzheimer, identifying the disease we now know as Alzheimer's, and helped translate much of his work from German to English.

Sources: Patch.org, American Psychiatric Association Foundation, and Melvin Sabshin, MD Library and Archives

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