Black History Month: Little Known Facts

The African American Studies Department is partnering with the Black Graduate Student Association on a series of coffee cup stickers in the Baker Center Front Room.

The second one celebrates Black History Month with some little-known facts:

• James Durnham, who was born a slave in 1762, bought his freedom at the age of 21 and set up his own medical practice in New Orleans, becoming the first Black physician in the United States.
• Inez Beverly Prosser was the first African-American woman to receive a Ph.D. in psychology, earned at the University of Cincinnati in 1933.
• William A. Hinton was the first African-American to publish a medical textbook in 1936.