Black History Month- Who Am I?

6. Paved the way for the abolition of slavery with his Emancipation Proclamation
7. She became the first African American female to graduate from medical school
11. The first African American psychiatrist
15. One of the first physicians to perform open-heart surgery in the United States
16. This pepper is good for arthritis and bee stings
17. This started as a week before it became Black History Month
19. First African American doctor to pen his own practice in the United States in New York City in 1837

1. She was the first Africa American to complete an Ophthalmology residency with New York University’s School of Medicine
2. This persons cells were used to study the effects of toxins, drugs, hormones, viruses on the growth of cancer cells without experimenting on humans, to test the effects of radiation and poisons, to study the human genome, to learn how viruses work, and it played a crucial role in the development of the polio and COVID-19 vaccines
3. This president proclaimed February to be Black History Month
4. Former slave that operated a successful medial practice in New Orleans in the 1780’s
5. The first person in the state of Arkansas to become board certified in pediatric endocrinology
8. This type of medicine consists of traditional healing concepts, are based on religious beliefs, and methods used in past cultures by people that were deemed to have the healing power
9. It aids in the healing of burns and sores and can be taken internally for stomach disorders
10. Said, “It’s my constitutional right to sit here as much as that lady. I paid my fare, it’s my constitutional right.”
12. Co-founded the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses in 1908.
13. Invented and patented the modern home security system
14. The Farther of Black History
18. Slave that informed his owner of an inoculations procedure that was used in Africa to fight smallpox