Rebecca Lee Crumpler, M.D. • 1st African-American woman doctor of medicine in the U.S. - 1864 • A Book of MedicalDiscourses among 1stpublications by an African American about medicine • Cared for freed slaves with Freedmen’s Bureau Patricia Era Bath, MD • 1st African-American to complete an ophthalmology residency at NYU • 1st Black female physician to receive medical patent: … Continue reading "Women’s History Month"
