Alvin F. Poussaint, Civil Rights Advocate and Leading Voice on Black Mental Health, Dies at 90
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Alvin F. Poussaint, Civil Rights Advocate and Leading Voice on Black Mental Health, Dies at 90

Alvin F. Poussaint, a psychiatrist who provided medical care to civil rights activists in 1960s Mississippi and later became a national authority on the effects of racism on Black mental health, has died.