Elizabeth Blackwell: The First Female Doctor of America
Elizabeth Blackwell is a well known activist for women and their admission into medical schools across America and Europe. She didn’t want the simple life that most women accepted. She wanted to do something that society told her not to do. Blackwell made her dreams reality and didn't let anyone stop her. Blackwell faced many challenges in life from being blind in one eye after she prepared a much needed treatment to being a woman in a male dominated world.
A CHILDHOOD OF LEARNING
Elizabeth Blackwell was born on the 3rd of February, 1821, in Bristol, England. She was the third of nine children. Blackwell was taught at a young age that everyone was equal despite their ethnicity, gender, or age. Her parents also instilled in her a sense of caring when it came to others as she was an older sibling and sometimes would watch over her younger siblings . Her early years were
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She was a doctor, author, and educator that defied the challenges of society at the time to achieve her dreams. Blackwell used many of the things she had learned in life such as her delligentness, her sense of duty, her belief that everyone deserved an education, and her headstrong personality to become the doctor we know today.
Elizabeth Blackwell started a revolution when she walked into that classroom. She showed men and other women that she and so many others deserved the chance to be whatever they wanted to be. Blackwell didn’t let society bind her to a life of staying at home with a husband and children. She decided how she would spend her life and nobody could tell her otherwise. She had been faced with challenges all her life, but she managed through them. Blackwell was someone that didn’t want to stick with the way society was, she wanted to reform