Title: Oral History Interview with Dr. Andrew Best December 9, 1998

Identifier: LL02.03.04.02   (https://digital.lib.ecu.edu/39728)

Description: Oral history interview with Dr. Andrew Best, a longtime health care provider of Greenville, North Carolina. In this interview, Dr. Best discusses the experiences of his childhood, segregation, his life on the farm where he grew up, and his educational experiences. He mentions several physicians who inspired him to enter into the medical field. He also describes joining the advanced ROTC while he was in school at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State College. In closing, Dr. Best shares a poem that he wrote based on thoughts that came to him after losing comrades in combat during World War II. The information covered in this interview is relevant to the years 1916 to 1998. contained on 2 cassette tapes.