Abyssinian Baptist Church, 82–84, 101–102, 134

Abyssinian Development Corporation (ADC), 134

African Methodist Episcopal Zion, 10

Aga, Professor Akpan, 28, 34

Agricultural Adjustment Act, 112

Ahern, Sarah, 53–54, 56

Ahmad, Mirza Ghulam, 40

Ahmadiyya Movement, 40–41

Akpandac, Professor, 36, 43–44

Ali, Noble Drew, 41

All Angels for Crippled Children (Philadelphia), 98

Allen, James, 59

Allen Memorial Church, 104

alternative medical practitioners, 6, 26–28, 30, 34, 43, 46, 49, 53, 79, 86

American Medical Association, 49, 131

Amos, Reverend Thomas, 125

Anderson, Charles, 66

Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor (AICP), 109

Association of Italian Physicians of America, 79

Baer, Hans, 42

Bahr, Policewoman Sarah, 55

Bankers Trust Company, 109

Batchelor, Carey, 20

Becton, Reverend Josephine Bufford, 104

Bellevue and Allied Hospital Systems, 63–65, 68–70, 73–75

Benedikt, Fred, 112

Bethel African Methodist Episcopal, 10

biomedicine, definition of, 6

Blake, Mary, 22

Blau, Justice William, 21

Bliss, Cornelius, 109

Bloomfield Medical Practice Bill, 50

Boehm, Lucille, 120

Bonanno, Reverend, 57

Booker T. Washington Sanitarium, 98

Boujour, Lilly, 37, 40

Braden, Charles, 105

Brannan, Dr. John W., 64

Broadhurst, Dr. Jean, 99

Brown, Bishop J. W., 122

Brown, Dr. Lucien, 75

Bunche, Ralph, 112

Burns, Reverend, 57

Burroughs, Nannie, 102

Butcher, Harriet, 122

Butler, Dr. Charles, 74

Carr, James D., 66

Carroll-Lattin Bill, 51