In Boston, Rebecca Davis Lee graduates as the first female African-American medical doctor

Delaware born, but Philadelphia raised Rebecca Davis Lee became the first African American woman with a medical degree when she graduated from the four year course at the New England Female Medical College in Boston, Massachusetts. She had previously practiced as a nurse in Charlestown, Massachusetts.  Following the Civil War she married Dr. Arthur Crumpler and practiced in Richmond before returning to Boston.  She practiced until around 1883 and died in 1895. (By John Osborne)