{"id":35192,"date":"2023-02-17T18:43:26","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T18:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/?p=35192"},"modified":"2023-02-17T18:43:26","modified_gmt":"2023-02-17T18:43:26","slug":"recognition-in-black-history-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/2023\/02\/recognition-in-black-history-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Recognition in Black History Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. James McCune Smith was the first African-American to obtain a medical degree in 1837. Born in Manhattan, he graduated from Glasgow University and completed a residency in gynecology, before returning to the United States and opening up a practice in general surgery and medicine. He is also considered the first African- American to be published in a scientific journal and owning a pharmacy. Beyond medicine, he was an abolitionist working with the likes of Frederick Douglass.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyhistory.org\/video\/rediscovering-life-and-legacy-james-mccune-smith\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-loopstyle=\"link\">Rediscovering the Life and Legacy of James McCune Smith | New-York Historical Society (nyhistory.org)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. James McCune Smith was the first African-American to obtain a medical degree in 1837. Born in Manhattan, he graduated from Glasgow University and completed&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diversity"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35194,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35192\/revisions\/35194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}