Susan McKinney Steward

Susan McKinney Steward
Born
Susan Maria Smith

March 1847
Crow Hill, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
DiedMarch 17, 1918(1918-03-17) (aged 71)
Wilberforce, Ohio, U.S.
Alma materNew York Medical College
Scientific career
FieldsPediatrics, homeopathy
Institutions
  • Brooklyn Women's Homeopathic Hospital and Dispensary
  • Brooklyn Home for Aged Colored People
  • Women's Hospital and Dispensary
  • Wilberforce University
McKinney-Steward's burial site at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York.

Susan Maria McKinney Steward (March 1847 – March 17, 1918) was an American physician and author. She was the third African-American woman to earn a medical degree, and the first in New York state.[1][2][3]

McKinney-Steward's medical career focused on prenatal care and childhood disease. From 1870 to 1895, she ran her own practice in Brooklyn and co-founded the Brooklyn Women's Homeopathic Hospital and Dispensary.[4] She sat on the board and practiced medicine at the Brooklyn Home for Aged Colored People. From 1906, she worked as college physician at the African Methodist Episcopal Church's Wilberforce University in Ohio. In 1911, she attended the Universal Race Congress in New York, where she delivered a paper entitled "Colored American Women".[1]

  1. ^ a b Seraile, W. (1985). SUSAN McKINNEY STEWARD: NEW YORK STATE'S FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMAN PHYSICIAN. Afro - Americans in New York Life and History (1977-1989), 9(2), 27. Retrieved from ProQuest 219939955
  2. ^ "Susan McKinney Steward". History of American Women. 2015-05-16. Retrieved 2021-03-20.
  3. ^ Cazalet, Sylvain, ed. (2001). "Biography of Susan Smith McKinney Steward (1848-1919)". History of the New York Medical College and Hospital for Women. Retrieved 2008-11-18.
  4. ^ "Susan Smith McKinney Steward (1847-1918) • BlackPast". BlackPast. 2007-11-17. Retrieved 2019-03-21.