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Dr. Rebecca Crumpler: America’s First Black Female Public Health Pioneer
Dr. Rebecca Crumpler was the first Black woman to become a physician in the United States. Working in the aftermath of the ...
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Is that Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler? Misidentification, copyright, and pesky historical details
Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler is famous for being the first African American woman to earn a medical degree in the US -- graduating in 1864 from the New England Female Medical College (which later merged ...