W.H. Auden

Historical marker location:

2 Montague Terrace, Brooklyn, New York

( Marker is on Montague Terrace just south of Montague Street, on the right when traveling south.)

Marker installed: 1995

Poet (1907 - 1973).

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.