America’s first Black female doctor also faced open hostility from ... “It’s unclear how long she practiced medicine,” Gamble says. “She might have continued practicing for a while ...

Brown-eyed, bobbed-haired Dr. Marian Staats Newcomer, 47, of Manhattan, remembers the qualms she suffered when a Syracuse University nose & throat specialist wanted to remove her tonsils.

Dame Louise McIlroy achieved a number of firsts in medicine and also defied officials to serve in World War One.

The regime of dictator Rafael Leónidas Trujillo all but erased Andrea Evangelina Rodríguez Perozo’s legacy after she died.

America’s first Black female doctor also faced open hostility from ... “It’s unclear how long she practiced medicine,” Gamble says. “She might have continued practicing for a while ...