Historical Marker
Dr. Albert L. Lott
Brookhaven, Lincoln County · Mississippi
Erected 2017
Albert L. Lott was born in 1921 and graduated from Alexander High School at 16 as valedictorian. He took a pre-med degree magna cum laude at Alcorn, then entered the Engineer Officers Training School at Fort Belvoir in only the second class to admit Black officers, and served in the South Pacific. After Meharry Medical College he came home to practice and became the first Black physician on the staff of what is now King's Daughters Medical Center. A colleague recalled that he often treated patients without caring whether he was paid. He worshipped at Bethel A.M.E. Church.
Where it stands
31.57117, -90.44360 · Directions
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