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Rebecca Lee Crumpler (born Rebecca Davis, February 8, 1831 – March 9, 1895) was an American physician, nurse and author. After studying at the New England Female Medical College, in 1864 she became the first African American woman to become a doctor of medicine in the United States. [ a] Crumpler was also one of the first female physician ...
Formal training and recognition of African-American women began in 1858 when Sarah Mapps Douglass was the first black woman to graduate from a medical course of study at an American university. [1] Later, in 1864 Rebecca Crumpler became the first African-American woman to earn a medical degree. The first nursing graduate was Mary Mahoney in 1879.
Dr. Rebecca Davis Lee Crumpler graduated from the New England Female Medical College in 1864 and was the first African American woman to earn a medical degree. Dr. Mary Harris Thompson graduated in 1863 and went on to establish the Chicago Hospital for Women and Children. Dr Esther Hill Hawks graduated in 1857.
Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is usually credited for the iconic March on Washington in August 1963, ... Rebecca Lee Crumpler was the first Black female doctor in the United States.
Rebecca Cole. Rebecca J. Cole (March 16, 1846 – August 14, 1922) was an American physician, organization founder and social reformer. In 1867, she became the second African-American woman to become a doctor in the United States, after Rebecca Lee Crumpler three years earlier. Throughout her life she faced racial and gender-based barriers to ...
This article was first published in 2016 and is from the Miami Herald Archives. As a newly licensed physician in the mid-1960s, Dr. James W. Bridges began to practice medicine in Miami just as ...
An Ohio medical student and HBCU grad has become the first Black woman neurosurgery resident at Vanderbilt University Medical Center The post Black physician makes history at Vanderbilt on Match ...
Mae Carol Jemison (born October 17, 1956) is an American engineer, physician, and former NASA astronaut. She became the first African-American woman to travel into space when she served as a mission specialist aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1992. Jemison joined NASA's astronaut corps in 1987 and was selected to serve for the STS-47 ...