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Overview
Rebecca Lee Crumpler is a medicine specialist at New England Female Medical College. Based in Boston.
Biography
Rebecca Lee Crumpler was the first African American woman to earn a medical degree in the United States (1864). She treated freed slaves after the Civil War and published a medical textbook.
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The life and contributions of Rebecca Lee Crumpler
1864
First Black female MD in US
Graduated from New England Female Medical College
1883
Published medical textbook
Published 'A Book of Medical Discourses,' one of the first by a Black physician