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Edward Craig Mazique (1911–1987) was a pioneer in the medical community especially among African Americans. Edward Craig Mazique was a native of Natchez, Miss. He graduated from Natchez College before leaving Mississippi to pursue an undergraduate degree and graduated from Morehouse College in Georgia, later serving on its board of trustees.
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 ...
A look at the lives of Dr. Susan Smith McKinney Steward, the first Black female doctor in New York, and her sister Sarah J. S. Tompkins Garnet, the first Black female principal in NYC.
It was the first and one of the few in-patient centers founded to care for African Americans who had tuberculosis, [6] at a time when other hospitals refused black medical experts privileges or staffing positions. [6] Staupers served as Superintendent for the Booker T. Washington Sanatorium from 1920 to 1922. [6]
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]
Sources: Palm Beach Post, Historical Society of Palm Beach County, T. Leroy Jefferson Medical Society, and "A Tradition of Caring, A History of Medicine in Palm Beach County," by Leon Fooksman (2013).
Dr Dorothy Lavinia Brown [1] (January 7, 1914 – June 13, 2004 [2]), also known as "Dr. D.", [3] was an African-American surgeon, legislator, and teacher.She was the first female surgeon of African-American ancestry from the Southeastern United States.
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.