title: Edith Irby Jones
text: Edith Irby Jones (December 23, 1927 – July 15, 2019) was an American physician. She was born in Conway, Arkansas. Jones was the first African American to be accepted as a non-segregated student at the University of Arkansas Medical School. She was also the first black student to attend racially mixed classes in the American South. 
  
  Jones was the first woman president of the National Medical Association. She was added into the Arkansas Women's Hall of Fame.
  
  Jones died at age 91 on July 15, 2019, in Houston, Texas.
  
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  1927 births
  2019 deaths
  American physicians
  Educators from Arkansas
  Scientists from Arkansas