Black Women Doctors: Dr. Agnes D. Lattimer

Abstract

As a young woman planning a career in medicine in the 1940s, Agnes D. Lattimer faced the triple obstacles of poverty, sexism, and racism, yet she refused to be discouraged. As she said, “No obstacles could deter me from my purpose. Not the negative attitudes of others, not lack of money, nor lack of encouragement from outside my family; nothing could dissuade me from my goal.”