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Jean L. Harris in 1955 is the first African American woman to earn a medical degree from the Medical College of Virginia. [93] Jane Hinton in 1949 is one of the first of two African American women to become a doctor of veterinary medicine. [94] Lillian Holland Harvey was the Dean of the Tuskegee University School of Nursing for 30 years. [35]
Margaret Jessie Chung (Chinese: 張瑪珠, () October 2, 1889 – () January 5, 1959), born in Santa Barbara, California, was the first known American-born Chinese female physician.
First African-American student to attend a racially mixed class in the Southern United States (1948) Edith Irby Jones (December 23, 1927 – July 15, 2019) was an American physician who was the first woman president of the National Medical Association and a founding member of the Association of Black Cardiologists .
Mary Tiera Farrow (c. 1924): [15] [39] First female lawyer in Kansas City, Missouri [Jackson County, Clay County, Platte County, and Cass County] Leona P. Thurman (1949): [ 10 ] [ 11 ] First African American female lawyer in Kansas City, Missouri [ Jackson County , Clay County , Platte County , and Cass County ]
Roscoe Cartwright, first African American Field Artilleryman promoted to Brigadier General Roy M. Davenport (1909-1987), U.S. Navy Rear Admiral [ 69 ] Charles Arthur Tabberer (1915-1942), U.S. Navy Lieutenant Junior Grade, Distinguished Flying Cross recipient [ 70 ]
Myra Adele Logan (1908 - January 13, 1977) is known as the first African American female physician, surgeon, and anatomist to perform a successful open-heart surgery. . Following this accomplishment, Logan focused her work on children's heart surgery and was involved in the development of the antibiotic Aureomycin which treated bacterial, viral, and rickettsial diseases with the majority of ...
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Claudia L. Thomas is the first female African-American orthopedic surgeon in the United States. She attended Medical School at Johns Hopkins University.She was the first African-American and woman to be admitted to the Yale Medical Program in orthopedics. [1]