Brown, Dorothy Lavinia
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Brown, Dorothy Lavinia
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Brown, Dorothy Lavania
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Brown, Dorothy L. (Dorothy Lavinia)
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Brown, Dorothy Lavenia
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Brown, D. (Dorothy)
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Brown, Dorothy, 1919-
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Dorothy Lavinia Brown was the first black female surgeon in the South; first black woman admitted to the American College of Surgeons; first black woman to serve in the Tennessee State Legislature; and first single woman to adopt a child in Tennessee; b. 1919; also known as Dorothy Brown, Dorothy Lavania Brown, Dorothy Lavenia Brown, and D. Brown.
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https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n81097517
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Medicine
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African American women legislators
African American women physicians
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Tennessee--Nashville
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