During its first seventy-five years, the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania graduated eighteen African American women – more than any other predominantly white medical school in the United States. This talk will examine the lives and careers of these “sisters of a darker race” who encountered racial and sexual discrimination as they made their way in the medical world demonstrated that medicine was indeed Black women’s work. In this presentation Dr. Gamble will discuss the challenges in writing the history of Black women physicians. There will also be time for Q&A. Refreshments provided.

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Find out more about the American Studies Research Group who are facilitating Dr Gamble's visit and speaker series: https://americanstudies.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/benjamin-meaker-distinguished-professor-speaker-series/.