Services held for medical pioneer/civil rights activist, Dr. Clinton Warner, Jr.
Services were held for Dr. Clinton Warner today.
He was instrumental in the creation of the Morehouse School of Medicine.
But before that Dr. Warner was heavily involved in the civil rights movement and fought in World War II.
He was not an ordinary man.
That’s how Dr. John Maupin describes his friend and mentor, Dr. Clinton Warner.
“He meant so much to the institutions that are the pillars in our community, Morehouse School of Medicine, Morehouse College, he was a strong leader in the organized medicine making sure that the Black physicians stood tall.”
Dr. Maupin is president of the Morehouse School of Medicine.
Before its creation in 1981, the institution was part of Morehouse College.
Dr. Warner along with two other colleagues had the vision for a separate medical institution.
Dr. Maupin says providing health care and a research facility for the underserved was important to Dr. Warner.
“He wasn’t a dreamer per se he didn’t have huge vision for it but what he was was an enabler, he knew what needed to happen and he enabled it but he also let others take it to the next level.”
In addition to being a noted Atlanta physician, Dr. Warner was veteran of World War II and took part in the assault on Omaha Beach during D-Day.
In the early 60’s he helped desegregate a southwest Atlanta neighborhood called Peyton Forest.
Dr. Clinton Warner died June 30th.
He was 87 years old.
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