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Rebecca Lee Crumpler, first African-American woman physician - by Barbados Today
February 22, 2020
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February 22, 2020
Rebecca Davis Lee Crumpler is the first African-American woman to earn a medical degree. She was also the first African-American to publish a text concerning medical discourse. The text, A Book of Medical Discourses was published in 1883. Born Rebecca Davis in Delaware on February 8, 1831, she grew up in Pennsylvania, where her aunt
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