Louise Celia Fleming

Louise Celia Fleming (January 28, 1862 – June 20, 1899) was an American physician. She was one of the first African Americans to graduate from the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania. She returned from Africa to improve her skills and she was the first African American woman to be commissioned for work in Africa by the Woman's American Baptist Foreign Missionary Society.

Quotes

• Two people within the last month have brought their idols and desired to be known as believers in the God of gods,” she wrote on October 10, 1887. “I shall keep them to show to friends in America as the first trophies of my Congo work.”
• He drew me unto Himself, and after passing through the shadow of doubts, I entered into the blessed light of His love“
• I was truly happy then, and since I have set sail for the benighted country, I am happier,” she wrote. “When I reach the doleful shores, I shall be happiest. What comfort comes to us from doing the perfect will of God concerning us!”
• We have a mission house two miles away, where I work mornings in the capacity of preacher, teacher, and doctor,” she wrote. “I hope to be allowed two years home to study medicine, to better help these suffering people.
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