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Joseph Stanley Kozlowski, Wikimedia Commons // Public Domain When she graduated from medical school in 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell earned more than an M.D.: she also earned the distinction of becoming America’s first woman doctor. It wasn’t an easy road. Rejected by all but one college and regularly shunned by her peers, Blackwell still managed to build an impressive and varied career. Her tenacity and trailblazing achievements helped expand women’s access to the medical field in the United States and beyond. 1. Elizabeth Blackwell was born into a family of reformers and activists. Blackwell was steeped in examples of progressive courage from an early age. Despite being in the sugar business (an industry that, in the early 1800s, relied heavily on enslaved people for labor), Blackwell’s father was staunchly anti-slavery. When the family moved from England to the United States in 1835, they became active in the American abolitionist movement.

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