5 Facts About the First Black Female Physician, Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler

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Legacy 

Crumpler’s lasting legacy is her medical journal, the Book of Medical Discourses, published in 1883. This journal details some of her experiences and it provides a perfect example of what it was like for other Black physicians. Here’s an excerpt detailing her work in the South:

“During my stay there nearly every hour was improved in that sphere of labor. The last quarter of the year 1866, I was enabled . . . to have access each day to a very large number of the indigent, and others of different classes, in a population of over 30,000 colored.”