Notable edit
- Pre-20th century
- Alexander T. Augusta - "In April 1863, Augusta became the first African-American commissioned as a medical officer in the Union Army and was awarded the rank of major. He was one of only 13 African-Americans to serve as surgeons during the war, out of a total of 12,000."[1]
- Anderson R. Abbott
- Charles B. Purvis
- John V. Degrasse
- Charlotte Forten
- Ann Stokes
- Susie King Taylor
- William P. Powell, Jr.
Sources and further reading edit
- Cate Lineberry, "Breaking Medicine's Color Barrier", New York Times, June 21, 2013.
- “Binding Wounds, Pushing Boundaries: African Americans in Civil War Medicine”, National Library of Medicine
- Jill Newmark, “Face to Face with History”, Prologue Magazine (NARA), Fall 2009
- Robert Slawson, “Prologue to Change: African Americans in Medicine in the Civil War Era.”
Notes edit
- ^ Cate Lineberry, "Breaking Medicine's Color Barrier", New York Times, June 21, 2013.