Rebecca Lee Crumpler: a History Woman Hero Takes You an Amazing Story
This month our teacher taught us the history about the discrimination among these period before the civil war, the civil and the civil war movement which let me impressively learn the greatness and persistence of the black, especially as a black woman as Rebecca Lee Crumpler.
Rebecca Lee Crumpler (8 February 1831 – 9 March 1895) was an American physician. She was the first African American woman to become a physician in the United States while Rebecca Cole was the second. Her publication of A Book of Medical Discourses in 1883 was one of the first by an African American about medicine.
Crumpler was born in Delaware, to Absalom Davis and Matilda Webber. An aunt in Pennsylvania, who spent much of her time caring for sick neighbors and may have influenced her career choice, raised her. By 1852 she moved to Charlestown, Massachusetts, where she worked as a nurse for the next eight years (because the first formal school for nursing only opened in 1873, she was able to perform such work without any formal training). In 1860, she was admitted to the New England Female Medical College. When she graduated in 1864, Crumpler was the first African American woman in the United States to earn an M.D. degree, and the only African American woman to graduate from the New England Female Medical College, which closed in 1873.
Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler died on March 9, 1895. And she became a published author, which was nearly unheard of for African Americans at the time and even rarer because she was a woman. She will long be remembered for her achievements and as a pioneer for those who would follow in her footsteps.
