Texas Black Woman Physician: Carrie Jane Sutton, MD

Authors

Shannon Wood, John P. McGovern Historical Collections & Research Center

Abstract

February 8 is National Black Women Physicians Day! The McGovern Historical Center highlights one of many amazing Black women physicians in early Texas. In 1950, less than 6% of doctors nationwide were women. Of that number, less than 2% of women physicians in the United States were Black. To practice medicine as a Black woman in the south prior to the start of the Civil Rights Movement that is why celebrating these women’s accomplishments is so important.

Recommended Citation

Wood, Shannon (2022) "Texas Black Woman Physician: Carrie Jane Sutton, MD," TMC Library Newsletter (2015-): Vol. 10: Iss. 2, Article 2.
Available at: https://digitalcommons.library.tmc.edu/library_newsletter/vol10/iss2/2