Black History in Medicine
Who was the first Black person to receive a medical degree?
James McCune Smith, MD
University of Glasgow Medical School (Scotland), 1837
First Black man to open a pharmacy too...
If your president is Black, what color should your lambo be?
Blue
Who was the first Black osteopathic physician?
Dr. Meta Christy (1921)
What city and state was Black Wall Street located?
Tulsa, Oklahoma
"I'm rooting for everybody Black"
Issa Rae
Who was the first African American woman to both earn a medical degree and open a medical institution?
Rebecca Lee Crumpler
New England Female Medical College (merged into Boston University School of Medicine)
Name the artist: "Say it loud! I'm Black and I'm proud!"
James Brown
Which enslaved African man helped stop the spread of smallpox in Boston through explaining the process of inoculation?
Onesimus
At what age did Serena Williams win her first US Open?
17
"I was rooting for you! We were all rooting for you! How dare you! Learn something from this!"
Tyra Banks
Which Black physician assisted in leading the charge to desegregate hospitals?
William Montague Cobb, MD
Case: Simkins v. Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital, 1962
Filed by a dentist, Dr. George Simkins (Head of NAACP in Greensboro, NC)
Name that movie: "I loves Harpo, God knows I do. But I'll kill em dead before I let him beat me."
The Color Purple
Who opened the first hospital for African American residents in the era of segregation?
Name one of the only 2 Black men to previously own a NBA team.
Robert Johnson (Bobcats)
Michael Jordan (Bobcats)
"You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom"
Malcolm X
Who was the first Black unofficial doctor to open a practice in the US?
Dr. James Durham
- Born into slavery
- Learned medicine from his owners and opened a successful practice in NOLA until 1801
- The practice was shut down because he did not have an official medical license.
Who was the first Black rapper to win a Pulitzer Prize?
Kendrick Lamar
Who was the first African American physician to perform open heart surgery?
Dr. Daniel Hale Williams
Who was the Black man born into slavery, became a sailor, first Black man promoted to captain*, and later on became a congressman?
Robert Smalls
*captain status was not commissioned by the army
"Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave."
Maya Angelou
Who is the first woman physician and first African-American woman physician in the U.S. Congress?
Dr. Donna Christian-Christensen
Served from 1997 to 2015
Who was the first Black man or woman to win an EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony)?
John Legend
Whoopi Goldberg
Which African American physician conducted research on sickle cell anemia, leading to the first treatment for the disease?
Dr. Charles Drew
transformed the field of blood transfusions and developed large-scale blood banks early in World War II.
What was the name of the NFL's rule in the 1920s that prevented owners from the signing of more Black players following Fritz Pollard?
The Gentleman's agreement
"The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression."
W.E.B DuBois