The previous answer of Patricia Bath is incorrect. Patricia Bath is the first African American woman doctor to receive a patent for a medical invention. Patricia Bath's patent (no. 4,744,360), a method for removing cataract lenses, transformed eye surgery, using a laser device making the procedure more accurate.
dr.eliza
During first sonography a doctor can answer if a a child is male or female.
Rebecca J. Cole (1845-1922) was an African-American female scientist/founder/physician. She became the second female African-American doctor in the US, in 1867.
Liberia
The first African-American female veterinarian in the United States was Dr. Alfreda J Webb; she graduated from Tuskegee University in 1949.
Phillis Wheatley was the first African-American female poet and the second among the African-American published poet. She was born in Senegambia and came to America as a slave at the age of seven.
Althea Gibson
kadambini ganguly
judith jasmin.
elizeabeth blackwell
The first female pediatrician is unknown but the first female doctor was Elizabeth Blackwell in 1849.Margaret Irving Handy (1889 - 1977) was a pioneering doctor who was one of the first to specialise in paediatric medicine
Mae Jemisom