First Woman M.D.

Born February 3, 1821, Elizabeth Blackwell was the first woman to graduate from medical school with an M.D. She was also a pioneer in educating women in medicine, in England and in America. Blackwell was from a British family that moved to the United States when Elizabeth was 11 and became active in the abolitionist movement. A younger sister, Emily Blackwell, joined Elizabeth Blackwell in her medical practice in New York and later in starting a medical school; two of their brothers married prominent American women's rights activists.

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