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We Speak Your Name
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The woman in the photo, Matilda Arabella Evans, graduated from the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1897. She was the first African American woman licensed to practice medicine in South Carolina.
Dr. Evans practiced obstetrics, gynecology and surgery; she cared for patients in her own home until she established the Taylor Lane Hospital (the first black hospital in Columbia, South Carolina) in 1901.
Dr. Evans ran her own farm and was the founder of The Negro Health Journal of South Carolina, a weekly newspaper. Dr. Evans was elected president of the Palmetto State Medical Society and vice president of the National Medical Association.
Dr. Matilda Arabella Evans, we speak your name.
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