John E. Lawe

Historical marker location:

East Durham, New York

( Marker can be reached from Route 145, on the right when traveling south.)

(February 26, 1919 - January 5,1989). Champion of the Working Man.

The first African-American woman to earn a medical degree in the United States, Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler, studied at the New England Female Medical College in Boston, but she completed her clinical studies at the New York Infirmary for Women and Children in Manhattan in 1864.