Dorothy Brown Research Paper

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Dorothy L. Brown
Dorothy Lavinia Brown (7 Jan. 1919-13 Jun. 2004), also known as Dr. D was born in Pennsylvania. She was a teacher, pioneer, state legislator and community leader. Rising from humble beginnings Brown become the First black woman representative to the state legislature in Tennessee and the first African American female surgeon in the South. At five months old Brown was placed in the Troy Orphanage Asylum in New York by her mother. She lived there until the age of 13. Around the age of five, she had a tonsillectomy and that’s where her fascination with medicine begin to grow. At some point in her young life, her mother reclaimed her but the two never got along so she would always run away.

During her teenage years, she worked at a Chinese laundromat and as a mother’s helper for Mrs. W. F. Jarrett who encouraged her to become a doctor. She attended Troy High School graduating top of her class in 1937 after being placed with foster parents who influenced her life greatly, giving her the security and support she needed. She then went on to graduate second in her class from Bennett College in Greensboro, North Carolina …show more content…
Hubbard Hospital to become a professor of surgery. During that time one of her patients pleaded with her to take her newborn daughter so Brown became the first women to adopt in Tennessee. She also was the first African American women of the South to become a surgeon and first to serve in the Tennessee General Assembly. Dorothy Brown drive to accomplish her dreams and her outspokenness towards science, religion, medical and political issues has not only influenced those of her time but also those in today’s society. She was proud to be a role model, not because she had done so much, but she could say to the young people that it can be done. Her philosophy of life was the belief that we are here for a purpose and that each of us is equipped with multiple
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