Add to ORKGDr. Lena Edwards, born September 17, 1900 in Washington, D.C. is recognized as one of the nation\u27s first black female physicians. Trained as an obstetrician-gynecologist, Dr. Edwards is also noted as a community activist, educator and medical volunteer among migrant workers. Until her death, she continued to be active on numerous boards and volunteered her time in New Jersey to provide the elderly with health care
The Lena Martin Smith Collection includes photographs, letters, and miscellaneous programs from even...
BRONX AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY PROJECT INTERVIEWER: Jane Kani Edwards INTERVIEWEE: Carmelle Norice S...
Harriet Washington is an award-winning medical writer and editor, and the author of the best-selling...
Women phsycians in the United States were virtually nonexistent in the early to mid-1800s. Tradition...
Collection Number: 249 Inclusive Dates: 1950 - 1998 Extent: 75 Cubic Feet Description: Cecile Hoover...
Dr. Mary Edwards Walker is America\u27s first and only woman to receive the Congressional Medal of H...
From the Lena Edwards papershttps://dh.howard.edu/pp_negatives/4153/thumbnail.jp
The papers of Dorothy Boulding Ferebee (1898-1980), physician, administrator, and activist, cover th...
Lena Olive Smith and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) created ...
The papers of Lee Andrew Gill, M.D. (1878-1981), medical doctor, civic, fraternal, and religious lay...
Johnette Green Edwards (1926-1977) was a social worker, club woman, and first African-American membe...
The first African-American woman hired as a public school teacher in New Bedford, Massachusetts, Eli...
Title: Papers, 1878-1952 Description: 10 linear ft. Notes: Afro-American physician, director of surg...
"Negro Women's Council Honors Local Surgeon" article on Dr. Dorothy Brown, professor and assistant c...
My dissertation argues that black female medical professionalization can and should be understood as...
The Lena Martin Smith Collection includes photographs, letters, and miscellaneous programs from even...
BRONX AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY PROJECT INTERVIEWER: Jane Kani Edwards INTERVIEWEE: Carmelle Norice S...
Harriet Washington is an award-winning medical writer and editor, and the author of the best-selling...
Women phsycians in the United States were virtually nonexistent in the early to mid-1800s. Tradition...
Collection Number: 249 Inclusive Dates: 1950 - 1998 Extent: 75 Cubic Feet Description: Cecile Hoover...
Dr. Mary Edwards Walker is America\u27s first and only woman to receive the Congressional Medal of H...
From the Lena Edwards papershttps://dh.howard.edu/pp_negatives/4153/thumbnail.jp
The papers of Dorothy Boulding Ferebee (1898-1980), physician, administrator, and activist, cover th...
Lena Olive Smith and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) created ...
The papers of Lee Andrew Gill, M.D. (1878-1981), medical doctor, civic, fraternal, and religious lay...
Johnette Green Edwards (1926-1977) was a social worker, club woman, and first African-American membe...
The first African-American woman hired as a public school teacher in New Bedford, Massachusetts, Eli...
Title: Papers, 1878-1952 Description: 10 linear ft. Notes: Afro-American physician, director of surg...
"Negro Women's Council Honors Local Surgeon" article on Dr. Dorothy Brown, professor and assistant c...
My dissertation argues that black female medical professionalization can and should be understood as...
The Lena Martin Smith Collection includes photographs, letters, and miscellaneous programs from even...
BRONX AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY PROJECT INTERVIEWER: Jane Kani Edwards INTERVIEWEE: Carmelle Norice S...
Harriet Washington is an award-winning medical writer and editor, and the author of the best-selling...