The First Black Physician in the US Sought to Heal its Social Wounds
from the Smithsonian Magazine by Meilan Solly [Excerpt -- full article at link] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/james-mccune-smith-america-first-black-physician-180977110/ James McCune Smith was not just any physician. He was the first African American to earn a medical degree, educated at the University of Glasgow in the 1830s, when no [US] university would admit him. For this groundbreaking achievement alone, Smith warrants greater appreciation. But Smith was also one of the nation’s leading abolitionists. In 1859, Frederick Douglass [...]