The National Medical Association (NMA) describes itself as "the largest and oldest national organization representing African-American physicians and their patients in the United States." It was founded in 1895, at a time when the American Medical Association admitted only white physicians. The group is headquartered in Washington, DC, and represents more than 25,000 black doctors.

In the late 1950s, the NMA took a more active interest in civil rights under the leadership of its president, T.R.M. Howard, a surgeon from Mississippi. In the months after his election as president, Howard had played a key role in the search for evidence and witnesses in the Emmett Till murder case and led the largest civil rights organization in the state, the Regional Council of Negro Leadership. In 1957, under his leadership, the NMA organized the Imhotep National Conference on Hospital Integration which publicized and challenged continuing hospital segregation in both the North and South. ^[1]

[edit] Publications

Journal of the National Medical Association
Abbreviated title(s)	JNMA
Discipline	Medicine
Language
Publication details
Publisher	Appleton-Century-Crofts (United States)
Frequency	Monthly
Indexing
ISSN	0027-9684
OCLC	1064483
Links
Journal homepage

The association has three primary publications:^[2]

• Journal of the National Medical Association
• NMA Healthy Living
• The Convention Daily Newspaper

[edit] References

1. ^ David T. Beito and Linda Royster Beito, Black Maverick: T.R.M. Howard's Fight for Civil Rights and Economic Power (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009), 132-35, 157-58.
2. ^ NMA Publications

[edit] External links

• NMA homepage