First Black woman doctor graduates! (334 hits)

February 24

*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


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Wednesday, February 24th 2010 at 10:26AM
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