Blacks In White Author Series: Twice As Hard: The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians

Saturday, November 11, 2023 | 1 pm – 2:30 pm

Free with Museum Admission.

Join Penn Medicine student and author Jasmine Brown  with her new book, Twice As Hard: The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians. Beginning with Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler, the first black woman to graduate from medical school after the Emancipation Proclamation to Jocelyn Dr. Elders, who was appointed as the first African American US surgeon general, TWICE AS HARD introduces readers to the achievements of prominent black women physicians all the way up to the present. A book signing will follow.