•Founded Frederick Douglass Memorial Hospital
and Training School for Nurses, Philadelphia, 1895
•First black to graduate from University of Pennsylvania Medical School, 1882
•First black admitted to the Philadelphia Medical Society
•Active in the fight for racial equality
•Uncle to the famous actor and millitant champion of black rights, Paul Robeson
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