Historical Marker
High Line
Historical marker location:
New York, New York
( Marker can be reached from West 14th Street east of 10th Avenue.)
Marker installed: 2009
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.