Rebecca Lee Crumpler
*On this date in 1864 the first Black woman attained a Medical Degree.
Rebecca Lee Crumpler graduated from the New England Female Medical College on this date. Crumpler worked from 1852-1860 as a nurse in Massachusetts.
Reference:
Traces of a Stream: Literacy and Social Change Among African American Women
By Jacqueline Jones Royster
University of Pittsburgh Press
Copyright April 2000
ISBN 0-822957256
