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Rebecca J. Cole

CTL-E-6722 · Person · physician · 1846–1922

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Rebecca J. Cole (1846–1922) was the second African American woman physician in the United States, earning her MD from the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1867. She worked alongside Elizabeth Blackwell at the New York Infirmary for Women and Children, making home visits in tenement districts, and later opened a center in Philadelphia offering medical and legal aid to women and children. She advocated for hygiene education and social reform as instruments of public health for fifty years.

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Merged 2026-11-02 from the staged health pioneers packet (website/.build-work/scratch-v114/health/) under the GOV-006 founder gate opened 2026-11-02; the staged record is carried verbatim — no claim upgraded in transit (GOV-004). · Roles as staged: Physician — physician, public health reformer (Philadelphia; New York) · Photo slot: HELD — No rights-clean portrait located on Wikimedia Commons (searched 2026-11-02: name and 'Rebecca Cole physician' queries return only unrelated census/DPLA sheets).

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