![]() ![]() ![]() Note: No photos of Rebecca Lee Crumpler are known to exist. Published in 1883, the book addresses children’s and women’s health and is written for “mothers, nurses, and all who may desire to mitigate the afflictions of the human race.” "I returned to my former home, Boston, where I entered into the work with renewed vigor, practicing outside, and receiving children in the house for treatment regardless, in a measure, of remuneration," she wrote.Ĭrumpler also wrote A Book of Medical Discourses: In Two Parts. While she faced sexism and other forms of harassment, Crumpler ultimately found the experience transformative. After the Civil War, Crumpler moved to Richmond, Virginia, where she worked with other black doctors who were caring for formerly enslaved people in the Freedmen’s Bureau. She earned that distinction at the New England Female Medical College in Boston, Massachusetts - where she also was the institution’s only black graduate. In 1864, after years as a nurse, Rebecca Lee Crumpler became the first black woman in the United States to receive an MD degree. In honor of Black History Month, read the inspiring stories of 10 pioneering black physicians. They invented modern blood-banking, served in the highest ranks of the U.S. They fought slavery, prejudice, and injustice - and changed the face of medicine in America. The Flying Black Medics, created by Leonidas Harris Berry, MD, return from providing medical care and education to Cairo, Illinois, residents in 1970. ![]()
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