Charles Henry Turner, (born February 3, 1867, Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.—died February 14, 1923, Chicago, Illinois), American behavioral scientist and early pioneer in the field of...
Ernest Everett Just was a pioneering African American biologist, zoologist, and physiologist. Born on August 14, 1883, in Charleston, South Carolina, Just overcame significant racial...
Edward Alexander Bouchet was born on September 15, 1852, in New Haven, Connecticut to William Francis and Susan Cooley Bouchet. Edward attended the segregated primary...
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...
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...
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...
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...