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Person · 1831–1895

Rebecca Lee Crumpler

The first Black woman to earn a medical degree in the United States (1864); cared for freed people after the Civil War and authored an early medical text by a Black author.

Physician / medicine. The first Black woman to earn a medical degree in the United States (1864); cared for freed people after the Civil War and authored an early medical text by a Black author.

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    Black Americans in Medicine

    The first Black woman to earn a medical degree in the United States (1864); cared for freed people after the Civil War and authored an early medical text by a Black author.