Pediatrician and former US surgeon general Julius B. Richmond died on July 27, 2008,
of cancer. Dr Richmond was born in 1916 in Chicago and worked on a sheep farm during
the Depression. After considering animal husbandry as a career, he ultimately chose
people, and he received degrees in physiology and medicine from the University of
Chicago in 1939. He spent 2 years at Cook County Hospital and then served in the United
States Air Force as a flight surgeon during World War II. His early research, inspired
by the US Supreme Court 1954 ruling in Brown v Board of Education, documented the effects of poverty on the psychosocial development of young children,
much of it with his long-term collaborator, Bettye Caldwell. He led the 1965 launch
and was the first director of Head Start, a program that has helped millions of poor
and underserved children since its inception during the Johnson administration.
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