Josefa Zaratt

Josefa Zaratt
Dr. Zaratt in staff portrait of Douglass Hospital
BornMarch 19, 1871
San Juan, Puerto Rico
DiedAugust 4, 1962(1962-08-04) (aged 91)
Bronx, New York, USA
Alma materTufts University School of Medicine (MD)
OccupationDoctor

Josefa Zaratt (also Zarratt) (March 19, 1871 – August 4, 1962) was the first Black woman to graduate from Tufts Medical School.[1] She was one of the early African-American women practicing as a doctor in the United States.[2]

Life

Zaratt was born in 1871 in San Juan, Puerto Rico.[3]

Zaratt studied at Tufts University School of Medicine,[4] graduating in 1905.[5] She moved back to her home country after graduating,[6] but was denied a medical license in Puerto Rico. She returned to the continental US[7] and passed the examination of the State Board of Registration in Medicine in Massachusetts.[3]

She worked at Douglass Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1910,[8] by 1923 was practicing medicine in Springfield, Massachusetts[9] and in 1932 she lived Boston, Massachusetts.

Zaratt died on August 4, 1962, at Fordham Hospital in the Bronx, New York. aged 91.[3] She was buried at Ferncliff Cemetery and Mausoleum in Greenburgh, New York.

References

  1. ^ "Title". Tufts University School of Medicine. 2018-10-02. Retrieved 2020-05-03.
  2. ^ Vigil-Fowler, Margaret; Desai, Sukumar (2021-12-01). "The community of Black women physicians, 1864–1941: Trends in background, education, and training". History of Science. 59 (4): 407–433. doi:10.1177/0073275320987417. ISSN 0073-2753. PMID 33557627.
  3. ^ a b c "Uncovering the Truth of a Trailblazer". Tufts University School of Medicine. Retrieved 2024-12-13.
  4. ^ Hine, Darlene Clark (1990). Black Women in American History: From Colonial Times Through the Nineteenth Century. Carlson Pub. p. 100. ISBN 978-0-926019-14-0.
  5. ^ "Tufts Awards 183 Degrees". The Boston Globe. 20 Jun 1905. Retrieved 16 February 2024.
  6. ^ Vigil-Fowler, Margaret. (2018). "Two Strikes--a Lady and Colored:" Gender, Race, and the Making of the Modern Medical Profession, 1864-1941. (Doctoral dissertation, UCSF).
  7. ^ University, Tufts (1906). Annual Report of the President of Tufts College.
  8. ^ "Dr. Grace A. Du Guid. Staff of Douglass Hospital; Dr. Josefa Zarrat. Staff of Douglass Hospital; Rev. Helen A. Mason; Mme. E. Azalia Hackley". NYPL Digital Collections. Retrieved 2020-05-03.
  9. ^ The Southern Workman. Hampton Institute Press. 1923.
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