Bohemorama

Historical marker location:

130 Bleecker St, New York, New York

( Marker is on Bleeker Street near LaGuardia Place, on the right when traveling east.)

Viki Khuzami. 2001 Acrylic on canvas.

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.