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The National Medical Association (NMA) is the largest and oldest organization representing African American physicians and their patients in the United States.As a 501(c)(3) national professional and scientific organization, the NMA represents the interests of over 30,000 African American physicians and their patients, with nearly 112 affiliated societies throughout the nation and U.S ...
It includes physicians that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Note that everyone in this category should also be placed in a neutral sibling or parent, such as Category:American physicians or one of its sub-categories, such as Category:American physicians by state .
Pages in category "20th-century African-American physicians" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 237 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
In 1964, she was the first African American woman to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom. [71] Willarda V. Edwards is the first African-American woman to serve as the president of the Baltimore Medical Society. [72] Joycelyn Elders was the first African American appointed as Surgeon General of the United States in 1993. [25]
Visible Women: New Essays on American Activism. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. pp. 296–324. ISBN 0-252-06333-3. Goodstein, Anita Shafer (May 1998). "A Rare Alliance: African American and White Women in the Tennessee Elections of 1919 and 1920". The Journal of Southern History. 64 (2): 219– 246. doi:10.2307/2587945. JSTOR ...
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James Derham [1] (May 2, 1762 [2] —1802?) (also known as James Durham) [3] was an American physician and emancipated slave who was the first African American to formally practice medicine in the United States. [4] Despite practicing medicine he never received an M.D. degree.
Dana Olden Baldwin, M.D. (March 20, 1881– November 9, 1972) was a prominent African- American physician situated in Martinsville, Virginia.He participated in World War I as a medical officer until he was honorably discharged in 1918.