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From The Washington Post: David M. French, a former Howard University professor of pediatric surgery who tended to the medical needs of civil rights marchers during the 1960s and later spearheaded an effort to strengthen public health systems in 20 African countries, died March 31 of renal failure at the University of Virginia hospital in Charlottesville. He was 86.Dr. French was a founding member and a national chairman of the Medical Committee for Human Rights, a civil rights organization that aimed to stop the segregation of health-care facilities and pressed for adequate medical care for patients of all races.
Read more about his life at the Washington Post