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Dr. Rebecca Crumpler, Forgotten No Longer (episode 200)
Dr. Rebecca Crumpler, Forgotten No Longer (episode 200)
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70 minutes
Released:
Aug 30, 2020
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Dr. Rebecca Davis Lee Crumpler was the first Black woman to earn a medical degree in the US in 1864, and she spent most of her adult life in Charlestown, Beacon Hill, and the Readville section of Hyde Park. She devoted her career to pediatrics and obstetrics, published the first medical text by an African American author, and made a point of caring for the marginalized, even moving to Virginia to tend to formerly enslaved people at the end of the Civil War. The nation’s first Black female physician lay in an unmarked grave for 125 years, but there have been important developments in the story of Dr. Crumpler while we’ve been in quarantine this year.
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Full show notes: http://HUBhistory.com/200
Support us: http://patreon.com/HUBhistory
Released:
Aug 30, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
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