Houston’s first African-American female physician, Thelma Adele Patten Law, set up practice in 1924. She was born in 1900 in Huntsville, Texas, to Mason B. and Pauline Patten. Her parents were well-known throughout the black community in Houston. Her father worked as a railway mail clerk and was a founding member of the NAACP Houston […]
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