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1864

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Rebecca Lee Crumpler, first Black woman physician

Crumpler becomes the first African American woman to earn a US medical degree.

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March 1864
Rebecca Lee Crumpler, first Black woman physician
Crumpler becomes the first African American woman to earn a US medical degree.

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