Rebecca Lee Crumpler was the medical pioneer of her time, the first African American woman to earn a degree in medicine as a physician. Born in Delaware in 1831 to Absolum Davis and Matilda Webber, little more has been recorded of Crumpler's childhood but that she grew up in Pennsylvania under her aunt's care and […]
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