Dr. Solomon Carter Fuller returns to Westborough State Hospital where he continues his groundbreaking research, despite discrimination.
Dr. Fuller is the first Black psychiatrist in the country and contributes groundbreaking research in understanding Alzheimer's disease and dementia, having trained with Dr. Alois Alzheimer in Europe. He perseveres through discrimination throughout his career, repeatedly facing pay discrimination and being denied recognition for his work.
In 1919, he leaves the Westborough State Hospital to teach at Boston University where he had previously received his medical degree in 1897. He retires in 1933 when a white junior assistant professor is promoted above him. Dr. Fuller commits the later part of his career to training Black psychiatrists to treat Black World War I veterans before he dies due to diabetes complications.
Dr. Fuller is well aware of the discrimination he faces in his career; he writes, "With the sort of work that I have done, I might have gone farther and reached a higher plane had it not been for the colour of my skin."
