*On this date in 1864 the first Black woman attained a Medical Degree.
Rebecca Lee Crumpler graduated from the New England Female Medical College on this date. Crumpler worked from 1852-1860 as a nurse in Massachusetts.
Reference: Traces of a Stream: Literacy and Social Change Among African-American Women By Jacqueline Jones Royster University of Pittsburgh Press Copyright April 2000 ISBN 0-822957256 To Become A Doctor -- http://www.bls.gov/k12/help06.htm