by Teaching History | Feb 24, 2016 | Uncategorized
February 24, Rebecca Lee Crumpler becomes the first black woman to receive an M.D. degree. She graduated from the New England Female Medical College. Rebecca Lee Crumpler was born in 1833. She worked from 1852-1860 as a nurse in Massachusetts.
by Teaching History | Feb 8, 2016 | Uncategorized
On this day in 1986 Oprah Winfrey becomes the first African American woman to host a nationally syndicated talk show.
by Teaching History | Feb 4, 2016 | Civil Rights
Rosa Parks was born on this day in 1913. was an African American civil rights activist whom the U.S. Congress dubbed the “Mother of the Modern-Day Civil Rights Movement”. Parks is famous for her refusal on December 1, 1955 to obey a bus driver’s...
