Joycelyn Elders Interviews (2024)

#1: Composite image of early photo of Joycelyn Elders and still frame from Pryor Center video interview
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#2: Family photo of Joycelyn Elders (front row, left) with her mother (front row, right) holding her baby brother, Chester, and her father (back row, third from right), California, 1940s
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#3: Curtis and Haller Jones, parents of Joycelyn Elders
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#4: Joycelyn Elders, age fifteen, when she was headed to college, 1948-1949
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#5: Joycelyn Elders as a pediatric intern, at an event at the University of Minnesota, 1960-1961
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#6: Joycelyn Elders as an intern
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#7: Joycelyn Elders at a physical therapy class at Brooke Army Medical Center, 1953
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#8: Joycelyn Elders with the physical therapy team at Brooke Army Medical Center
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#9: Joycelyn Elders in a hospital nursery
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#10: Ted Panos, the doctor who hired Joycelyn Elders to be the chief resident at the University of Arkansas Medical Center
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#11: Joycelyn Elders, 1975
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#12: Joycelyn Elders and her son, Eric
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#13: Minnie Jones, paternal grandmother of Joycelyn Elders
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#14: Joycelyn Elders's family playing cards at a picnic
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#15: Joycelyn Elders receiving the Daisy Bates Award at Eta Phi Beta's Founder's Day at the Capitol Hill Building with Ms. Wilkerson, president of the Gammu Nu chapter of Eta Phi Beta sorority, May 7, 1989
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#16: Joycelyn Elders
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#17: Joycelyn Elders
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#18: Joycelyn Elders with Senator Ted Kennedy during her confirmation hearings for Surgeon General
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#19: Joycelyn Elders being sworn in as Surgeon General of the United States with Donna Shalala on the left, her husband on the right, and her brother, Chester, as the minister
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#20: Joycelyn Elders speaking to a mother with her baby
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#21: Joycelyn Elders with hospital staff
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#22: Joycelyn Elders at a press conference
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#23: Joycelyn Elders as the Surgeon General of the United States talking to a boy during a hospital tour with the press
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#24: Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders
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#25: Joycelyn Elders as the Surgeon General of the United States
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#26: Joycelyn Elders with Bill Maher on his television show, Politically Incorrect
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#27: Joycelyn Elders with the officers from the Association of Reproductive Health Professionals
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#28: Joycelyn Elders
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#29: Joycelyn Elders, Surgeon General of the United States
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#30: Signed portrait of Joycelyn Elders
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#31: Joycelyn Elders
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#32: Kevin Elders, son of Joycelyn Elders, at his graduation, age 25
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#33: Oliver and Joycelyn Elders
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#34: Joycelyn and Oliver Elders with their son, Kevin, at his MBA graduation from Grambling State University, 1990
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#35: Chester Jones, brother of Joycelyn Elders
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#36: Joycelyn Elders
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#37: Joycelyn Elders at the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame induction of her husband, Oliver
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#38: Joycelyn Elders at her induction as an Inaugural Hall of Fame member at the University of Arkansas Medical Sciences
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#39: Joycelyn and Oliver Elders
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#40: Joycelyn Elders and her husband, Oliver, with Harry Ward at her induction into the University of Arkansas Medical Sciences Hall of Fame
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#41: Joycelyn Elders at a nursery
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#42: Joycelyn Elders with her son and husband holding the National High School Sports Hall of Fame award
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#43: Joycelyn Elders speaking at the American Health Information Management Association
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#44: Joycelyn Elders's sisters, Beryl and Pat, and brother, Chester, July 1999
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#45: Joycelyn Elders with a patient at Arkansas Children's Hospital, 1995
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#46: Joycelyn Elders and University of Arkansas Medical Sciences chancellor, Harry Ward, at her retirement from UAMS, 1998
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#47: Joycelyn Elders with her husband, Oliver, and their son
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#48: Behind-the-scenes photo from Pryor Center interview with Joycelyn Elders; Little Rock, Arkansas, 2008
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#49: Behind-the-scenes photo from Pryor Center interview with Joycelyn Elders; Little Rock, Arkansas, 2008
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#50: Behind-the-scenes photo from Pryor Center interview with Joycelyn Elders; Little Rock, Arkansas, 2008
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#51: Behind-the-scenes photo from Pryor Center interview with Joycelyn Elders; Little Rock, Arkansas, 2008
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#52: Still frame from Pryor Center video interview with Joycelyn Elders; Little Rock, Arkansas, 2008
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#53: Still frame from Pryor Center video interview with Joycelyn Elders; Little Rock, Arkansas, 2008
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