Richard N. Wright

Historical marker location:

175 Carlton Ave, Brooklyn, New York

( Marker is on Carlton Avenue, 0.1 miles north of Willoughby Avenue, on the right when traveling north.)

Sept. 4, 1908 - Nov, 28, 1960. 175 Carlton Avenue, Brooklyn.

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.