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She Was The First African American Woman To Open Up A Bank In The United States
I’m always fascinated to learn about women in history who were able to make ... the St. Luke Penny Savings Bank and became ...
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The Nation’s First Black Female Doctor Blazed a Path for Women in Medicine. But She Was Left Out of the Story for Decades
After earning a medical degree in 1864, Rebecca Lee Crumpler died in obscurity and was buried without a headstone ...
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Second Street students celebrate African American women in history
FLINT — Students at Second Street Learning in Flint have been working on projects for Black History Month, focusing on the impact of African American women throughout history. The individualized ...
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African American Firsts in Medicine: Setting the Standard for Future Generations
Davis is Director of the Alexandria Black History Museum in Alexandria ... be noted that Rebecca Lee Crumpler was the first African American woman to graduate from medical school in the United ...
New museum in Pullman to recognize role of Black women in labor movement
A Ladies Auxiliary Women’s History Museum is planned near the National A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum in Pullman.
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New book celebrates African American physician
Published by The History Press-Arcadia Publishing ... on a family farm in eastern Aiken County. She became the first African American woman in South Carolina to earn a medical license and ...