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First African American female: Dorothy L. Freeman (1942) [7] First (African American) female (U.S. Commission on Civil Rights): Frankie Muse Freeman (1937) in 1964 [8] [9] First African American female to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States: Leona P. Thurman (1949) [10] [11]
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 .
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]
African Americans in Kansas. There is an African-American community in Kansas, including in Kansas City, Kansas. [3] Nicodemus, Kansas is the oldest surviving town west of the Mississippi River settled solely by African Americans. Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka was decided in 1954. [4]
Kansas City / Topeka: The American Citizen: 1887 [29] or 1888 [30] [6] 1909 [29] Weekly [29] LCCN sn98062574, sn85032021; OCLC 25693695, 12759891; Published by John L. Waller and R.K. Morton. [6] Published in Topeka from February 23, 1888 to July 19, 1889. [30] First Kansas African American newspaper to last more than a decade. [6] Kansas City ...
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After law school, James returned to Kansas City and joined the law firm of Blackwell Sanders Matheny Weary & Lombardi as an associate; in 1990, he became the firm's first African-American partner. In 1993, he and Nancy Kenner left to form their own firm, Kenner & James, P.C., specializing in personal injury , medical malpractice , and nursing ...