02/23/2022
As the first African-American woman to earn a doctorate at a Florida university, Dr. Johnnie Ruth Clarke’s accomplishments as one of the state’s leading educators provided a platform for her pursuit of a wide variety of humanitarian causes including uplift through education and improving health care for Florida’s impoverished populations. Although Clarke died in 1978, her legacy lives on in the Dr. Johnnie Ruth Clarke scholarships for disadvantaged and other underrepresented Pinellas County school students and with the Johnnie Ruth Clarke center opened seven years after her death as the nation’s first federally funded holistic medical clinic.
Glad her name still lives on!!
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