Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler is famous for being the first African American woman to earn a medical degree in the US -- graduating in 1864 from the New England Female Medical College (which later merged ...

Rebecca Lee Crumpler's gravestone was only installed in 2020, 125 years after her death in 1895. John Tlumacki / The Boston Globe via Getty Images In 1864, newspapers in Boston noted a milestone ...