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At just nine years old, Lynette Charity stood frozen as her father struck her mother so hard she toppled over the porch railing into the hedges below. That night, Lynette made a vow: she would find a way out. Escape Plan is a raw and riveting memoir of grit, grief, and gratitude. Set in the segregated South of the early 1960s, it chronicles Lynette Charity’s remarkable journey from a turbulent childhood to achieving what once seemed impossible: becoming a physician—a Black woman doctor—at a time when such a thing was almost unimaginable. One month after that violent night, Lynette watched the debut episode of Ben Casey, a new medical drama. In that moment, her escape plan crystallized: she would become a doctor. But even as her real-life caregivers were Black and the ones on TV were White, the contradiction didn’t deter her. Determined to rise above the limitations placed on her, she forged her mother’s signature to transfer into a better-resourced white school across town. She graduated high school with honors, earned a full scholarship to Chatham College for Women in Pittsburgh, and later joined the Tufts University School of Medicine Class of 1978—one of just seven Black women in her class. Told with unflinching honesty and deep humanity, Escape Plan is a story of survival, ambition, and the power of a young girl’s dream to rewrite her destiny.
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