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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.
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.
After completing her primary education, Dickens earned a full-tuition scholarship to attend Crane Junior College in Chicago where she studied pre-medical classes. [6] [4] During her time at Crane Junior College, Dickens faced great adversity as both a Black student and a woman. Many of her peers made gesture against and toward her; however, she ...
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 ...
Patricia Era Bath (November 4, 1942 – May 30, 2019) was an American ophthalmologist and humanitarian. She became the first female member of the Jules Stein Eye Institute, the first woman to lead a post-graduate training program in ophthalmology, and the first woman elected to the honorary staff of the UCLA Medical Center.
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After her retirement, she moved to Florida and maintained a part-time practice at Pensacola's Sacred Heart Hospital until her full retirement in January 2012. In 1989, Canady was inducted into the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame, and in 1993 she also received the American Medical Women's Association President's Award. Canady was known amongst her ...