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Formal training and recognition of African-American women began in 1858 when Sarah Mapps Douglass was the first black woman to graduate from a medical course of study at an American university. [1] Later, in 1864 Rebecca Crumpler became the first African-American woman to earn a medical degree. The first nursing graduate was Mary Mahoney in 1879.
First woman in Georgia to earn a doctor of medicine degree [99] Viola Ross Napier (1881–1962) 1993 First woman member Georgia House of Representatives, first woman lawyer to argue before Georgia Supreme Court [100] Gertrude Pridgett "Ma" Rainey (1886–1939) 1993 Blues singer [101] Martha McChesney Berry (1866–1942) 1992 Founder of Berry ...
Elizabeth Blackwell (3 February 1821 – 31 May 1910) was an Anglo-American physician, notable as the first woman to earn a medical degree in the United States, and the first woman on the Medical Register of the General Medical Council for the United Kingdom. [1]
First African American woman licensed to practice medicine in the U.S. state of Georgia: Margaret Grigsby: physician: 1923-2009: First African American woman to become a fellow of the American College of Physicians and the first woman to preside over a major medical division at Howard University Hospital: Bessie Blount Griffin: physical ...
An All-Woman Supreme Court in Texas, the first woman-majority state Supreme Court in U.S. history, sits for a five-month special sitting on a single case, disbanding shortly afterward. 1926 Gertrude Ederle was the first woman to swim across the English Channel. [83] 1928 Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic ocean. [84]
This is a list of the first qualified female physician to practice in each country, where that is known. Many, if not all, countries have had female physicians since time immemorial; however, modern systems of qualification have often commenced as male only, whether de facto or de jure. This lists the first women physicians in modern countries.
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Women's suffrage in Georgia (U.S. state) (1 C, 4 P) Pages in category "History of women in Georgia (U.S. state)" The following 36 pages are in this category, out of 36 total.