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First Black woman to serve in the North Carolina General Assembly Alfreda Johnson Webb (born February 21, 1923, in Mobile , Alabama) was a professor of biology and a doctor of veterinary medicine. She was the first Black woman licensed to practice veterinary medicine in the United States.
Crumpler first practiced medicine in Boston, primarily serving poor women and children. After the American Civil War ended in 1865, she moved to Richmond, Virginia, believing treating women and children was an ideal way to perform missionary work. Crumpler worked for the Freedmen's Bureau to provide medical care for freedmen and freedwomen.
Mildred Fay Jefferson (April 6, 1927 – October 15, 2010) [1] was an American physician and anti-abortion activist.The first black woman to graduate from Harvard Medical School, the first woman to graduate in surgery from Harvard Medical School, and the first woman to become a member of the Boston Surgical Society, she is known for her opposition to the legalization of abortion and her work ...
Mabel Keaton Staupers worked to pressure the Army to admit black women into the Army Nurse Corps, which they finally did in 1941. [53] Velma Scantleburry-White is the first African-American female transplant surgeon in the United States [143] Rosalyn P. Scott in 1977 became the first African American woman trained in the practice of thoracic ...
The first black woman to become a neurosurgeon Alexa Irene Canady (born November 7, 1950) is a retired American medical doctor specializing in pediatric neurosurgery . She was born in Lansing, Michigan and earned both her bachelors and medical degree from the University of Michigan .
West, a physician, was the first black Army Surgeon General, and was the first black female active-duty major general and the first black female major general in Army Medicine. [3] [4] West is also the first Army black female lieutenant general. [5] She is the highest ranking woman to have graduated from the United States Military Academy.
She was the first African-American woman to be admitted to the American College of Surgeons in 1950, and specialized in Obstetrics and Gynecology. [ 1 ] Dickens worked at several private practices and clinics including the Aspiranto Health Home founded by Dr. Virginia Alexander , and the Teen Clinic at The University of Pennsylvania which she ...
Mary Eliza Mahoney (May 7, 1845 – January 4, 1926) was the first African-American to study and work as a professionally trained nurse in the United States.In 1879, Mahoney was the first African American to graduate from an American school of nursing.