Sojourner Truth

Historical marker location:

1 River Road, Ulster Park, New York

( Marker is at the intersection of River Road and Broadway, on the left when traveling south on River Road.)

Marker installed: 2013

1797-1883.

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.