Video – Roving Reporter #97: Dr Mildred Fay Jefferson
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Mildred Fay Jefferson (born 1927) is an American doctor and activist, born in Texas. Her father was a Methodist minister. Growing up in the Jim Crow era, she nevertheless became the first African American woman to graduate from Harvard Medical School in 1951. In addition, she was the first woman in the Boston Surgical Society, the first woman to be a surgical intern at the Boston City Hospital and the first woman to receive the Lantern Award for Patriotism. She has also received 28 honorary degrees.
In spite of all of these accomplishments, however, she is probably best known for her support for the right-to-life movement. She helped found the National Right to Life Committee and served three terms as its president. She is a member of Black Americans for Life and currently lives in Boston, leading the Right to Life Crusade for the last 33 years. She is held in high esteem by Feminists for Life and other pro-life feminists. Dr. Jefferson currently serves on the Board of Directors of more than 30 pro-life organizations. She has unsuccessfully run for the Republican nomination for the United States Senate in Massachusetts. -Wikipedia. Since the video was filmed Mildred passed on to her eternal reward on October 15, 2010.
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