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Medical Review: High blood pressure claimed Booker T. Washington

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From: AP Worldstream
Date: 20060506
Author:ALEX DOMINGUEZ, Associated Press Writer

ALEX DOMINGUEZ, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
05-06-2006
Dateline: BALTIMORE
Booker T. Washington died of high blood pressure, a review of his medical records has determined, erasing a cloud over the civil rights leader's death left by one of his doctors more than 90 years ago.

The doctor wrote in 1915 that Washington died of "racial characteristics" _ an often dismissive term that included high blood pressure but also could also refer to syphilis.

Washington's records were obtained with the permission of his descendants for a University of Maryland medical conference that looks each ...

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