Rebecca Cole

Rebecca Cole (March 16, 1846 – August 14, 1922) was an American physician, organization founder and social reformer. In 1867, she became the second African-American woman to become a doctor in the United States, after Rebecca Lee Crumpler three years earlier.

Quotes

• We must teach these people the laws of health; we must preach this new gospel, That gospel, was that the respectability of a household ought to be measured by the condition of the cellar.
  • Cole wrote in an 1896 issue of the periodical The Woman’s Era.