List of African-American women in medicine

African-American women have been practicing medicine informally in the contexts of midwifery and herbalism for centuries.

Others, like Susie King Taylor and Ann Bradford Stokes, served as nurses in the Civil War.

Formal training and recognition of African-American women began in 1858 when Sarah Mapps Douglass was the first black woman to graduate from a medical course of study at an American university.

Two women, Jane Hinton and Alfreda Johnson Webb, in 1949, were the first to earn a doctor of veterinary medicine degree.

This is an alphabetical list of African-American women who have made significant firsts and contributions to the field of medicine in their own centuries.

Nurses at Oak Ridge Hospital in the 1940s
Susie Baker, later Susie Taylor, a Civil War nurse.
Susie Baker, later Susie Taylor , a Civil War nurse
Louise Celia Fleming , an early African American physician
25th Station Hospital Unit , U.S. Army Black Nurses In Liberia during WWII
Donna Christian-Christensen , the first woman and African-American physician to serve in the United States Congress on C-SPAN.
Jessie Gideon Garnett (1897–1976)
Joyce Nichols , center, and Shirley Thompson, right, treat Raymond Hayes in 1983.
Della H. Raney , of the Army Nurse Corps
Jane Cooke Wright
Nadine Burke Harris , first Surgeon General for California