REBECCA LEE CRUMPLER
Rebecca not only had one achievement but two:
First African American to graduate a medical school and earn her M.D. degree and also the first African American to write a medical book that has been published.
"...practicing outside, and receiving children of the house for treatment; regardless, in a measure, of remuneration."
SOURCES
•http://www.bumc.bu.edu/academies/namesakes/crumpler/
•http://www.nlm.nih.gov/changingthefaceofmedicine/physicians/biography_73.html
•http://myhero.com/go/hero.asp?hero=Crumpler_New_Haven