[175 years ago Tuesday, Elizabeth Blackwell became Dr. Blackwell, the first woman to graduate from a US medical school. So this week I’ll AmericanStudy Blackwell and four other groundbreaking women from American history, leading up to a special weekend post on folks from our own moment!]
Back in
March 2022, I used the occasion of Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination to the Supreme
Court to write a piece for my Saturday
Evening Post Considering History column
on the amazing Pauli Murray and the long history of groundbreaking Black women
and the legal profession in America. I couldn’t create this week’s series and
not included them all, so in lieu of a full post today would ask you to check
out that column, please!
Last
groundbreaking woman tomorrow,
Ben
PS. What
do you think? Other groundbreaking women, past or present, you’d highlight?
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