But his work in medicine and for social justice, Dr. James McCune Smith had a lasting impact on the city. Freedom, education, and access to health care were opportunities all too often out of ...

Illustration by Meilan Solly / Photos via New York Public Library, University of Glasgow and public domain James McCune Smith was ... and slavery than does Dr. Smith, and his heart is as broad ...

His name was Dr. James McCune Smith. Born in New York in 1813, he came of age in a divided nation that was still half-slave and half-free. When no college would admit him, McCune Smith went to ...

"As early as 1859, Dr. McCune Smith said that race was not biological but was a social category," Gamble said. "I feel that I am standing on the shoulders of Dr. James McCune Smith." ...

McCune Smith was suspicious. In today’s language, we’d say he crunched the numbers. Dr James McCune Smith exposed the use of a dangerous experimental medical drug on women who were used as ...

"As early as 1859, Dr. McCune Smith said that race was not biological but was a social category," Gamble said. "I feel that I am standing on the shoulders of Dr. James McCune Smith." ...

Dr McCune Smith’s research also intimated that some patients died after they had received treatment. James McCune Smith was born in 1813, the son of a runaway slave who had escaped to New York City.

James McCune Smith was the first African American to receive a medical doctorate from a university. Born in 1813 to a poor South Carolina runaway sl ...

More than a century ago, Dr. James McCune Smith did what had never been done before. He became the first black person to earn a medical degree and practice medicine in this country. It took him ...

As a step toward closing that gap, Capital Rx recently partnered with Howard University to launch the Dr. James McCune Smith Scholarship fund to support the next generation of pharmacists.