Was an American Physician and political activist.The first African American woman woman to graduate from Harvard Medical School, the first woman to graduate in surgery from Harvard Medical School and the the first woman to become a member of the Boston Surgical Society,Mildred is known for her opposition to the legalization of abortion and her work as president of the National Right To Life Committee.
Born in Pittsburg,Texas,Mildred was the only child of Millard and Guthrie Jefferson,a Methodist minister,and a school teacher.Her parents divorced before 1976 and lived in Roxbury after their divorce.Mildred was raised in Carthage,Texas,in the Wesley-Calvinist tradition.At a young age,"Millie" followed the town doctor around on his house drawn buggy while he made housecalls,this would later inspire her to become a doctor.
She earned her bachelor's degree in three years from Texas College.Since she was considered too young to attend medical school,she went to Tufts University where she received her master's degree in biology.Mildred then went on to Harvard Medical School and graduated in 1951,becoming the first African woman to do so.
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