Occupation-Physician
Martin Robison Delany (1812-1885)
Martin Robison Delany was an African American abolitionist, the first African American Field Officer in the U.S Army, and one...
W. Montague Cobb (1904-1990)
William Montague Cobb was born in Washington, D.C. October 12, 1904. He earned his B.A. from Amherst College in 1925...
Island Smith (1877-?)
Island Smith was a celebrated African Creek native healer (or root doctor) who practiced his art in the hinterlands southwest...
W.H.C. Stephenson (1825-circa 1873)
Dr. W.H.C. Stephenson, the first black doctor in Nevada, practiced medicine in Virginia City, Nevada, during the heyday of the...
Matthew Oliver Ricketts (1853-1917)
Dr. Matthew Oliver Ricketts was the generally acknowledged political leader of Omaha’s African Americans at the turn of the 20th...
Dr. Justina Ford (1871-1952)
The child who would become Denver, Colorado’s first and only woman doctor in the early decades of the twentieth century...
Louis T. Wright (1891-1952)
Louis Tompkins Wright, medical researcher, war hero and political activist, was born to former slaves in La Grange, Georgia on...
Dr. Earl V. Miller (1923-2005)
Dr. Earl V. Miller was the first African American board certified urologist in the State of Washington and the first...
Blanche Sellers Lavizzo (1925-1984)
Dr. Blanche Sellers Lavizzo was the first African American woman pediatrician in the state of Washington. She arrived in Seattle...
