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Rebecca Cole
American physician (1846–1922)
For other uses, see Rebecca Cole (disambiguation).
Rebecca J. Cole (March 16, 1846 – August 14, 1922) was an American physician, organization founder and social reformer.
In 1867, she became the second African-American woman to become a doctor in the United States, after Rebecca Lee Crumpler three years earlier. Throughout her life she faced racial and gender-based barriers to her medical education, training in all-female institutions which were run by the first generation of graduating female physicians.[1]
Early life and education
Cole was born in Philadelphia on March 16, 1846, one of five children.[2] Her father was a laborer and her mother was a laundress.[3] One of her sisters, Sarah Elizabeth Cole, married Henry L.
Phillips, a prominent African American Episcopal priest, c. 1876.[4]
Cole attended high school at the Institute for Colored Youth where the curricul
