PRISCILLA TAYLOR FEMALE TRUCK DRIVER who served in the women's army helped paved the way for others to be in it
Priscilla Taylor, an African American woman truck driver serving in the Women's Army Corps.
Rebecca Lee crumpler first black female doctor in the United States also wrote medical books
Rebecca Lee Crumpler , born Rebecca Davis, (February 8, 1831 – March 9, 1895), was an American physician, nurse and author. After studying at the New England Female Medical College , in 1864 she became the first African American woman to become a doctor of medicine in the United States.Crumpler was also one of the first female physician authors in the nineteenth century.In 1883, she published A Book of Medical Discourses . The book has two parts that cover the prevention and cure of infantile bowel complaints, and the life and growth of human beings. Dedicated to nurses and mothers, it focuses on maternal and pediatric medical care and was among the first publications written by an African American on the subject of medicine.
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