The Path-Breaking Physician, Rebecca Lee Crumpler

The first black woman to get a medical degree in the United States, Rebecca Lee Crumpler born Rebecca Davis. She had to stop medical school midway through because it wasn't safe in Boston. After the Mance Patient Proclamation was signed, she came back to school and they actually tried to take away her scholarship. The degrees to which both being black and being a woman throw additional barriers up is not just additive, right? It's profoundly more difficult.