Oberlin College
Oberlin College which was named Oberlin Collegiate Institute until 1850, is a private liberal arts college in Oberlin, Ohio. In 1833, Presbyterian ministers John Jay...
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Lucy Stanton Day Sessions
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Lucy Stanton Day Sessions was born on October 16, 1831, in Cleveland, Ohio, to Samuel and Margaret Stanton, free African Americans. Her father, a barber,...
Theodore Sedgwick Wright
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Theodore Sedgwick Wright (1797–1847) was a trailblazing African-American abolitionist, Presbyterian minister, educator, and advocate for racial equality whose life’s work profoundly shaped the fight against...
John Chavis
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John Chavis, an early 19th Century minister, and teacher was the first African American to graduate from a college or university in the United States....
Lonnie Bristow
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In 1995, Lonnie Bristow, a board-certified doctor of internal medicine, became the first African American President of the American Medical Association (AMA) in its 148-year...
Dr. Levi Watkins, Jr
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Dr. Levi Watkins, Jr. was a cardiac surgeon who, in 1980, performed the first implantation of an automatic defibrillator into a human heart. He was...
Daniel Hale Williams III
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Daniel Hale Williams III was a pioneering surgeon best known for performing 1893 one of the world’s first successful open-heart surgeries. Williams was born on...
Ida Gray Nelson Rollins
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Ida Gray Nelson Rollins, the first African American Woman dentist, was born in Clarksville, Tennessee, on March 4, 1867. She became an orphan when her...
Eliza Ann Grier
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Eliza Ann Grier was an extraordinary woman who overcame slavery, poverty and racism to become the first African American woman licensed to practice medicine in...
Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler
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Born Rebecca Davis in Delaware on February 8, 1831, she grew up in Pennsylvania, where her aunt provided care for the ill. A bright girl,...