ALTHEA GIBSON August 24 1854—Dr. John V. DeGrasse, perhaps the most prominent Black person in New England during the pre-Civil War period, is admitted to the Massachusetts Medical Society. DeGrasse was born in New York City in 1825 and graduated from Bowdoin College in Maine. 1950—Chicago attorney Edith Spurlock Sampson is named by President Harry … Continued
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