| 1864 |
Rebecca Lee was the first African-American graduate (15 years after Elizabeth Blackwell). |
| 1867 |
Rebecca Cole was the second African-American graduate, and the first black graduate of Woman's College of Pennsylvania. She was the first to hold the post of Sanitary Visitor at the New York Infirmary. Prior to this, she was a resident at the Infirmary. |
| 1868 |
Sarah Parker Remond completed medical school in Florence, Italy. |
| 1894 |
Remond died and was buried in Rome. |
| 1920's |
There were 65 practicing African-American women physicians. |
| 1868-1904 |
Seven schools were established for African Americans. |
| 1923 |
Only two approved schools existed: Howard University Medical School, Washington, D.C. founded 1868; and Meharry Medical School, Nashville, TN, founded 1876. |
AMA denied membership to African-Americans.
