Elizabeth Blackwell
No, Elizabeth Blackwell was not a nun. She was the first woman in the United States to receive a medical degree and become a physician.
Elizabeth BlackwellElizabeth Blackwell became the first woman to receive a medical degree in the U.S. (from the Medical Institution of Geneva, New York) in 1849.
"Elizabeth Blackwell" First woman to receive a medical degree in the United States.
Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States, immigrated to the US from Bristol, England.
elizebeth blackwell was the first black woman to earn her medical degree
The first women to earn a degree got it from Wesleyan College in Macon, Ga. Catherine Brewer Benson was the name of the woman who earned the degree from the small liberal arts women's college.
Elizabeth Blackwell is important to history because she was the first woman doctor, and that went along with supporting slavery.
She was the second African-American woman to receive a medical degree, in 1867.
Rebecca Lee Crumpler became the first African American woman to receive an M.D. degree in the US when she graduated from the New England Female Medical College in 1864.
She was the first woman to get a medical degree in the United States.
In 1837, James McCune Smith was the first African American to earn a medical degree (in Scotland). In 1839, Samuel Ford McGill of Monrovia, Liberia, graduated from Dartmouth Medical School.
Elizabeth Blackwell was born in 1821 in Bristol, England and immigrated to America in 1832. Dr. Blackwell was the first woman to receive an M.D. degree from an American institution.