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Dr. Shantella Sherman is a historian and journalist who serves as the Informer's Special Editions Editor. Dr. Sherman is the author of In Search of Purity: Eugenics & Racial Uplift Among New Negroes... More by Dr. Shantella Y. Sherman
Black Women Pioneers in Medicine: Stories of Perseverance
By James Wright, WI Staff Writer.
Great article, very informative. However it appears to the reader, by the red arrow and statement in the rectangle box, that the photo is that of Rebecca Lee Crumpler, the first Black woman physician in the U.S.
This is a photo of Mary Eliza Mahoney, the first African American woman to earn a professional nursing license in the U.S. In 1908 she co-founded the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses (NACGN).