Emma Reynolds

CTL-E-4633 · Person · physician · 1860s-1910s

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Nurse and physician; denied nursing-school admission in Chicago because she was Black — the catalyst for Provident Hospital's founding; member of Provident's first nursing graduating class (October 27, 1892); first Black woman to earn an MD from Northwestern's Woman's Medical School (1895).

The record

Also known as: Emma A. Reynolds

Referenced by

Provident Hospital — has alumnus → this record
Provident Hospital and Training School for Nurses — has alumnus → this record

Sources

Northwestern Magazine — 'Equality Advocate' (Emma Reynolds, 2019)
UIC Mapping Care Project — 'Provident Hospital and Training School for Nurses, 36th & Dearborn' (primary source)

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