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Mrs Barbara Ross-Lee Physician & the First Black Woman to Become a Medical School Dean She's Also the Sister of Diana Ross! BlackHistory | Blackhistory Meme on ME.ME
Blackhistory, Memes, and School: Mrs. Barbara Ross-Lee, physician & the first black woman to become a medical school dean. She's also the sister of Diana Ross! BlackHistory
Changing the Face of Medicine
In 1932, Margaret Morgan Lawrence became the only African American student at Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences. Challenging the double discrimination of racism and sexism that she faced as she launched her career in medicine, Dr. Lawrence has gone on to have a distinguished career of breakthroughs and successes.
Explaining the rudimentary mechanisms of cell metabolism, regulation, and signaling, and the proteins required, got Martha Vaughan #NHLBI elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1985. Her work increases our understanding of how cells undertake the many processes that enable them to adapt to changing physiological conditions.
Reclaiming the #Latina tag
Dra. Evangelina Rodriguez this is the person dominicans remember only as an “ugly, crazy black woman”, if at all…. who happened to fight her whole life for the rights of poor women, especially black ones. who grew up poor and became the first dominican woman MD,
She “Had An Eye At The Tip Of Each Finger”... Meet The Outstanding 19th c. OB Who Invented The Vaginal Speculum
Marie Gillain Boivin the outstanding 19th c. OB who invented the vaginal speculum that is still used today.
Little Known Black History Fact: Dr. Velma Scantlebury
Dr. Velma Scantlebury is the first African American female transplant surgeon in America. She is currently the associate director of the Kidney Transplant Program at Christiana Care in Delaware. With more than 200 live donor kidney transplants under her career, she holds extensive research credit in African American kidney donation.
Dr. Georgia Rooks Dwelle (1884-1977) the daughter of a slave, was the first Spelman College graduate to attend medical school ultimately graduate with honors from Meharry Medical College in Nashville. Upon moving back to Atlanta she opened the Dwelle Infirmary, which was the first general hospital for African-Americans, the first "lying-in" obstetrical hospital for African-American women.
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Part 14: Who Was Susie King Taylor? Susie King Taylor ~ August 1848 – October, 1912 Notable Facts: * Teacher; first African American to teach openly in a school for former slaves in Georgia * Army nurse, serving during the American Civil War * Author of “Reminiscences of My Life in Camp with the 33d United States Colored Troops, Late 1st S.C. Volunteers”, she was the only African American woman to publish a memoir of her wartime experiences. Reflections:Susie King Taylor began life as ...
Katie Booth, Biomedical Chemist born
Katie Booth, chemist born Date: Thu, 1907-05-23 *Katie Booth was born on this date in 1907. She was an African American biomedical chemist and community activist.
Thomas, Vivien
Vivien T. Thomas. In 1944, Hopkins' surgery chief, Alfred Blalock, successfully operated on the heart of a 9-pound child, a "blue baby." Medical experts believed cardiac surgery was impossible. As Blalock prepared to make his historic incision, he looked around the operating room and asked, "Where's Vivien?" Blalock would not begin until Thomas, stationed on a stool behind his right shoulder, was there to guide Blalock through procedures. Prejudice long kept Thomas' crucial role unacknowledged.