Who was the second black woman to graduate from medical school in 1867 and join Dr Elizabeth Blackwell in New York?
Rebecca Lee Crumpler was the first woman of color to graduate
from a medical school-- she graduated the New England Female
Medical College in 1864. Then, in 1867, Rebecca J. Cole became the
second black female doctor, when she graduated from the Women's
Medical College of Pennsylvania. She then went to work for Dr.
Elizabeth Blackwell at the New York Infirmary for Women and
Children.