Ulysses Grant Bourne (1873–1956) was an American physician and civic leader in Frederick, Maryland.
Bourne was born in Island Creek, Calvert County, Maryland, on March 17, 1873, the ninth of ten children.
In 1902, he graduated from Leonard Medical College (now Shaw University) in Raleigh, North Carolina.
It operated until 1928, when the Frederick City Hospital opened a new wing for African American patients.
In 1931, he founded the Maryland Negro Medical Society, and in 1934 he co-founded the Frederick County Branch of the NAACP and served as its president for 20 years.
In 1961, his son Ulysses Grant Bourne Jr. became the first African American doctor to have privileges at Frederick Memorial Hospital, while his daughter Gladys (Thornton) became a nurse.
You weren't just a number, you were respected as a human being.”[2] In his eulogy for Bourne, Cecil B. LaGrange of Asbury Methodist Church said, "He was a quiet, unassuming man, doing only those things which he felt were for the good of his people and the community in which he lived.