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Medicine · 1831–1895

Rebecca Lee Crumpler

Rebecca Lee Crumpler earned her medical degree in 1864 from the New England Female Medical College, becoming the first African American woman to become a physician in the United States. After the Civil War she moved to Richmond to care for newly freed people through the Freedmen's Bureau, working against staggering racial and gender prejudice. Her 1883 A Book of Medical Discourses is one of the earliest medical texts by an African American.

“I early conceived a liking for, and sought every opportunity to, relieve the sufferings of others.”

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