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Dr. Walker, part I
The only woman ever awarded the Medal of Honor - the US military’s highest decoration - was a genderqueer Civil War surgeon named Dr. Mary Edwards Walker.Walker was a suffragist, a veteran and POW, and a talented doctor who challenged convention in…
Tags: Civil War, Doctors, LGBT, Mary Edwards Walker, Transgender
Dr. Walker part II
PART II. In 1865 Pres. Andrew Johnson awarded Dr. Mary Walker the Medal of Honor. Dr. Walker wore the medal pinned to her suit coat every day for the rest of her life. In 1917, her medal was rescinded along w/those of 911 men, for want of direct…
Tags: Civil War, Clothing, Doctors, LGBT, Mary Edwards Walker, Transgender
National Coming Out Day
Happy #ComingOutDay to Anna Howard Shaw & Lucy Anthony! Shaw led the movement from 1904-1915. She wasn't our greatest leader, TBH. But she was a minister, a doctor - the 1st woman Rev. & Dr. - and for 30 years partner of Susan B's niece Lucy.…
Tags: Anna Howard Shaw, Doctors, LGBT
Dr. Blackwell, Dr. Lozier, Dr. Crumpler
A woman who wanted to be a doctor in the 1850’s more or less needed to start her own medical school. When Elizabeth Blackwell applied in 1847, she was turned down everywhere. Harvard, Yale, Bowdoin, and every medical school in New York City and…
Tags: 1847, Clemence Lozier, Doctors, Higher education
Julia's sister, Dr. Mary Britton
Memphis in the 1880s was still rebuilding from the war and the yellow fever epidemics. It wasn’t a very big place. The two women discussed yesterday - Julia Hooks & Elizabeth Meriwether - were each elites in their own circles. Did they ever meet?…
Dr. Susan Smith McKinney Steward of Weeksville
Sarah Smith Garnet & Dr. Susan Smith-McKinney Steward were sisters - Sarah the eldest of 10, Susan the 7th. Together, their impact on Brooklyn's African-American community was immense. Their suffrage contributions - Sarah's especially - were…
Tags: 1902, Black Suffragists, Brooklyn, Doctors, New York City, Sisters