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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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.