Doctor Ruth Janetta Temple was the first African American woman doctor in Los Angeles, California. Temple was born in 1892 in Natchez, Mississippi. After her father’s death, the Temple family moved to Los Angeles, California in 1904 where her mother worked as a practical nurse. Ruth would care for her five siblings while her mother […]
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