LSU’s first Black medical graduate reflects on breaking barriers in 1970

BATON ROUGE — LSU School of Medicine first opened its doors in New Orleans in 1931, but didn’t see its first Black graduate until 1970. Dr. Claude Jenkins Tellis went on to spend decades working as a pulmonologist in the Baton Rouge area. When Dr. Tellis graduated from medical school, only 2.2 percent of doctors […]