Dr. Louis T. Wright became the first African American physician at Harlem Hospital
In 1919, Dr. Louis T. Wright became the first African American physician at Harlem Hospital. Wright earned a bachelor’s degree from Atlanta’s Clark University in 1911 and a medical degree from Harvard University Medical School in 1915.
Wright served in France as a physician and Captain in the U.S. Army in World War I where he successfully implemented life-saving treatments and suffered exposure to poison gas that led to both a Purple Heart and a lifelong respiratory illness.
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Source: CHAAMP Resources
Credit: Photo: Louis Tompkins Wright, MD, FACS (1891–1952), Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Lot 13074, no. 631.
