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Harold Amos, the first African American to hold a department chair at Harvard Medical School and a tireless campaigner for increased opportunities for blacks in the sciences, died this past February at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. The cause of death was a stroke. Dr. Amos was 84 years old.
Harold Amos was a native of Pennsauken, New Jersey. One of nine children of a postal worker, Amos, as a young boy, attended a two-room segregated school- house. He graduated first in his class at Camden High School and received a full scholarship to Springfield...