Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler was the history figure of choice for this project because she was the first African-American woman to graduate with a M.D. degree and become a successful physician of her time. Rebecca was the idea for this project because I can relate myself to her—sharing the same racial background and aspirations to become physicians— greatly and wanted to learn more about her inspirational journey.
Crumpler unfortunately does not have many sources regarding her, so I had to mainly rely on bibliographies and her book, A Book of Medical Discourses. The sources were mostly websites, while a few were images.
The topic of “Breaking Barriers” has become more pronounced and impactful after many searches and reading done on Rebecca. She was very brave to pursue the medical field even though her gender and racial background were majorly looked down upon in the nineteenth century. Her perseverance through college when she was judged and hated for something she had no control over is very inspirational and further motivates me in pursuing my own dream of being a physician.
I gathered sources over a span of several days and designed the website along the way. I learned how to create a website through Weebly.
The National History Day Project theme of 2019 is “Breaking Barriers”. The reason Rebecca was my choice was because of her continuous challenging and destruction of prejudice barriers in her society in the nineteenth century. Women were already viewed as too weak for the medical field, and blacks were viewed as lowly and uneducated. Rebecca not only broke the gender barrier but the race barrier as well and that is an amazing achievement because of the numerous obstacles she had to overcome to achieve her dreams of being a physician.
This topic of “Breaking Barriers,” is important to history because it provides the chance of letting students educate and relate to an important person if history. They do not only receive knowledge of important historical figures but also get to feel empowered by their chosen hero.
Crumpler unfortunately does not have many sources regarding her, so I had to mainly rely on bibliographies and her book, A Book of Medical Discourses. The sources were mostly websites, while a few were images.
The topic of “Breaking Barriers” has become more pronounced and impactful after many searches and reading done on Rebecca. She was very brave to pursue the medical field even though her gender and racial background were majorly looked down upon in the nineteenth century. Her perseverance through college when she was judged and hated for something she had no control over is very inspirational and further motivates me in pursuing my own dream of being a physician.
I gathered sources over a span of several days and designed the website along the way. I learned how to create a website through Weebly.
The National History Day Project theme of 2019 is “Breaking Barriers”. The reason Rebecca was my choice was because of her continuous challenging and destruction of prejudice barriers in her society in the nineteenth century. Women were already viewed as too weak for the medical field, and blacks were viewed as lowly and uneducated. Rebecca not only broke the gender barrier but the race barrier as well and that is an amazing achievement because of the numerous obstacles she had to overcome to achieve her dreams of being a physician.
This topic of “Breaking Barriers,” is important to history because it provides the chance of letting students educate and relate to an important person if history. They do not only receive knowledge of important historical figures but also get to feel empowered by their chosen hero.