User:Lquilter/drafts/African-Americans in medicine

Notable

Pre-20th century

• Alexander T. Augusta - "In April 1863, Augusta became the first African-American commissioned as a medical officer in the Union Army and was awarded the rank of major. He was one of only 13 African-Americans to serve as surgeons during the war, out of a total of 12,000."
• Anderson R. Abbott
• Charles B. Purvis
• John V. Degrasse
• Charlotte Forten
• Ann Stokes
• Susie King Taylor
• William P. Powell, Jr.

Sources and further reading

• Cate Lineberry, "Breaking Medicine's Color Barrier", New York Times, June 21, 2013.
• “Binding Wounds, Pushing Boundaries: African Americans in Civil War Medicine”, National Library of Medicine
• Jill Newmark, “Face to Face with History”, Prologue Magazine (NARA), Fall 2009
• Robert Slawson, “Prologue to Change: African Americans in Medicine in the Civil War Era.”