James McCune Smith
James McCune Smith (
1813 -
November 17,
1865), born to free parents in
New York, was the first
African-American doctor. He attended the University of Glascow in
Scotland, where he received a doctorate in medicine in 1832. While in Scotland, Smith was a member of the Glasgow Emancipation Society. After an internship in
Paris, Smith traveled back to New York in 1837. During the
1950s, he helped Frederick Douglass to establish the
National Council of the Colored People.
Some of his published essays
- A Lecture on the Haitian Revolution, (1841)
- The Destiny of the People of Color
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