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In 1887, Boyd established a medical and dental practice in
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General James H. Hickman. Boyd began teaching in 1876 and became principal of the Public School for
Negroes in Pulaski while still a student in himself, and also opened a night school around this time.
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in fact, it teaches every subject of interest to the colored people, as discussed by more than one hundred of their wisest and best men and women : illustrated with beautiful half-tone engravings
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in fact, it teaches every subject of interest to the colored people, as discussed by more than one hundred of their wisest and best men and women : illustrated with beautiful half-tone engravings
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Nashville of $ 14,000 value which was reputedly the most expensive house bought by a person of African descent in Tennessee up to that date.
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disavowed black candidates, meaning that Boyd was only successful in being nominated to a "citizen's ticket" in protest. The 1893 Nashville mayoral election was instead won by
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The Negro doctor has had to struggle in a fashion and with a persistency rarely, if ever, equaled by any other group seeking professional status.
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in 1882, where he was awarded additional qualifications in dentistry and pharmacy in the following years. He then obtained
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