Papers, 1963-2003.

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Papers, 1963-2003.

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Includes newspaper clippings, programs, invitations, black and white photographs of Dr. May Edward Chinn (the first African American women to graduate from University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York), Book "Africa's Gift to America" (1966, inscribed to Gibbons).

.25 linear ft. (1box)

Denver Public Library, Central Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6821053

Denver Public Library, Central Library

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Chinn, May Edward, 1896-

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Physician. From the description of Reminiscences of May Edwards Chinn :koral history, 1979. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122362006 Physician. May Chinn was the first African-American woman graduate of Bellevue Hospital Medical College, and the first African-American woman doctor in Harlem. From the guide to the May Edward Chinn collection, 1926-1980, (The New York Public Library. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture...

Gibbons, Lena.

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Lena Gibbons (formerly Pasqualine Lawson) was one of the few African Americans who served as a Psychiatric Social Worker in the field of neuropsychiatry during World War II. She graduated with a bachelors and graduate degree from New York University and did coursework at Fordhams School of Social Work. Her exemplary record of service went unrecognized by the Air Force which was common for many African Americans, Japanese Americans and other minorities who served during World War II. In 2005, US ...