Art, care & community
Rebecca Lee Crumpler
1831–1895
Massachusetts connection
Boston
Crumpler earned a medical degree in Boston in 1864, becoming the first Black woman in the United States to do so. She cared for families and later published a book about health. Her career challenged racist and sexist barriers to medical education.
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