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Dr. Alvin H. Crawford was the first African American member of the Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America. He grew up in the segregated suburb of Orange Mound in Memphis, Tennessee, one of the first planned African American communities post-slavery. “It was populated with single family homes, no projects; physicians, dentist, grocers, and the pharmacist were all African American”. Of Orange Mound, Dr. Crawford shares, “it was an idyllic environment to grow up in. I didn’t know direct racism early on because we hardly ever had to leave our community. We were poor, but it never mattered, we were all in it together. Life was good until perhaps first grade when factories, water treatment plants, and other essential commodities for whatever reasons could serve the city ‘better’ if they were located in our neighborhood Orange Mound, go figure.”

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