HUB History - Our Favorite Stories from Boston History

For Black History Month, we're dropping some of our favorite past episodes back into the podcast feed every few days this month. Enjoy! Dr. Rebecca Davis Lee Crumpler was the first Black woman to earn a medical degree in the US in 1864, and she spent most of her adult life in Charlestown, Beacon Hill, and the Readville section of Hyde Park. She devoted her career to pediatrics and obstetrics, published the first medical text by an African American author, and made a point of caring for the marginalized, even moving to Virginia to tend to formerly enslaved people at the end of the Civil War. The nation’s first Black female physician lay in an unmarked grave for 125 years, but there have been important developments in the story of Dr. Crumpler while we’ve been in quarantine this year. Double Bonus: February 8, 2021 is Dr. Crumpler's 190th birthday, and the mayor has proclaimed it to be Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler Day in the City of Boston. Huzzah! Full show notes: http://HUBhistory.com/200