This Day in Black History - February 24

Rebecca Davis Lee Crumpler (February 8, 1831 – March 9, 1895) was an American physician. On this day she became the African-American woman to graduate from medical school and the first female African-American physician in the United States. She married Dr. Arthur Crumpler after the Civil War. Her publication of A Book of Medical Discourses in 1883 was one of the first written by an African American about medicine.