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.
During first sonography a doctor can answer if a a child is male or female.
dr.eliza
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
Dr. Mae Jemison was the first African-American female astronaut. She flew into space aboard the space shuttle Endeavour in 1992, becoming the first African-American woman to travel to space.
The first African-American female veterinarian in the United States was Dr. Alfreda J Webb; she graduated from Tuskegee University in 1949.
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kadambini ganguly
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
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