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George Jenkins. Born in a rough neighborhood in Newark, New Jersey in 1973 At 13, he visited a dentist and decided he wanted to be a dentist Attended Seton Hall University for his undergraduate degree Attended the University of Medicine and Dentistry in New Jersey Became a dentist in 1999.
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George Jenkins • Born in a rough neighborhood in Newark, New Jersey in 1973 • At 13, he visited a dentist and decided he wanted to be a dentist • Attended Seton Hall University for his undergraduate degree • Attended the University of Medicine and Dentistry in New Jersey • Became a dentist in 1999
Sampson Davis • Born to a fatherless home in Newark, New Jersey in 1973 • He was the fifth of six children • He attended Seton Hall University for his undergraduate degree and the University of Medicine and Dentistry in New Jersey for his MD. • He became a doctor in 2003. • He currently is the attending emergency room physician at Beth Israel Center in Newark
Rameck Hunt • Born to a 17 year old mother in Orange, New Jersey in 1973 • He and his mother frequently lived with his grandmother because his father was in jail and his mother was a drug addict • At 14, he moved to Newark to live with an uncle • He attended Seton Hall University and then went on to Robert Wood Johnson Medical School • He graduated in 1999
Interesting Facts • The three established a nonprofit organization—the Three Doctors Foundation—that provides scholarships for inner-city youth • The three tour the country speaking about their experiences and inspiring inner city youth to seek out upper education • The three published two other books The Bond (2007) and We Beat the Street (2005) • The Bond addresses each doctor’s relationship or lack of relationship with his father. The book encourages young men to become more involved in thr lives of their children. • We Beat the Street is a version of The Pact written specifically for middle school aged students.
Newark in the 1980s • This was and is the largest city in New Jersey • The city is broken into five political wards: North, South, East, West and Central • George, Sam, and Rameck all live in the South ward, a ward with largely African-American residents and a number of public housing units • The South ward was a hotbed of crime, poverty, and cocaine
Cocaine/Crack • The United States crack epidemic occurred in large urban areas beginning in the early 1980s and ending in the early 1990s • Due to illegal shipments from the Dominican Republic and the Bahamas through Miami, the price of crack/cocaine decreased drastically in the early 1980s • Cocaine is a powdery substance most users would snort in order to get the substance quickly into their bloodstream • Crack was a purer, crystalized form of the powdery cocaine; users would burn and smoke or inject crack • Some scholars argue that the crack epidemic most significantly impacted low income minority communities in large urban areas
Works Cited “City of Newark, New Jeresy.” 2004-2009. http://www.ci.newark.nj.us. “Dr, George Jenkins Biography.” The History Makers. 2008. http://www.thehistorymakers.com “Dr. Rameck Hunt Biography.” The History Makers. 2008. http://www.thehistorymakers.com. “Dr. Sampson Davis Biography.” The History Makers. 2008. http://www.thehistorymakers.com Reinarman, C. and Levine, H., The Crack Attack: Politics and Media in America's Latest Drug Scare. In J. Best (Ed.). Images of Issues: Typifying Contemporary Social Problems. New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1989; see also Reeves, J. L. and Campbell, R., Cracked Coverage: Television News, the Anti-Cocaine Crusade, and the Reagan Legacy, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1994. “The Three Doctors” The Three Doctors. 2011. http://www.threedoctorsfoundation.org.
