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Lynk spent much time developing educational and professional opportunities for African American physicians. In 1890 he and his wife, Beebe Steven Lynk, established the University of West Tennessee graduating at least 155 physicians as well as a number of pharmacists, nurses, dentists, and, through its law school, attorneys during its twenty-three years of existence. [4]
Thomas M. Morgan, "The education and medical practice of Dr. James McCune Smith (1813-1865), first black American to hold a medical degree", Journal of the National Medical Association. 2003 Jul; 95(7):603-14, full text. Kevin O'Reilly, "New recognition for first black U.S. doctor with medical degree", American Medical News, November 8, 2010.
Sophia B. Jones was a Canadian-born American medical doctor, who founded the nursing program at Spelman College. She was the first black woman to graduate from the University of Michigan Medical School and the first black faculty member at Spelman. [24] M. Mary Mahoney was the first African-American to graduate from nursing training, graduating ...
The Black-based medical group later disbanded, but it reformed in 1991 and again in 2001. It has about 250 members. Thomas Leroy Jefferson was buried in West Palm Beach’s segregated Evergreen ...
His influence in South Florida’s medical community runs so deep that in 2007 the Dade County Chapter of the National Medical Association - once a professional group representing black physicians ...
During Black History Month, we recognize a wide variety of firsts, the achievements of people who overcame prejudice to be the first of their race to do a job, hold an office, lead a group.
African Americans have been the victims of oppression, discrimination and persecution throughout American history, with an impact on African-American innovation according to a 2014 study by economist Lisa D. Cook, which linked violence towards African Americans and lack of legal protections over the period from 1870 to 1940 with lowered innovation. [1]
Alice Woodby McKane (1865– 6 March 1948) [1] was the first woman to work as a medical doctor in Savannah, Georgia. [2] She was not only known as a physician but also as a politician and an author. She and her husband Cornelius McKane contributed an important part in medical history.