The Road from Clarksville to Rome
In the early 1950s, Blanche Rudolph drove ninety miles round trip each week from Clarksville, Tennessee, to Meharry Medical College in Nashville — one of...
This is a contemporary on perseverance and healing, drawing on Philippians 4:13.
In the early 1950s, Blanche Rudolph drove ninety miles round trip each week from Clarksville, Tennessee, to Meharry Medical College in Nashville — one of the few institutions that would treat Black patients in the segregated South. Her daughter Wilma, stricken with polio at age four, wore a metal brace on her twisted left leg. Doctors said the child would never walk without it.…
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