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Catharine Deaver Lealtad

1895–1989

United States

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Catharine Deaver Lealtad (April 26, 1895 – January 30, 1989) was an American pediatrician and humanitarian worker. She was the first African-American graduate of Macalester College, where the Lealtad-Suzuki Center for Social Justice is named partly in her honor. Lealtad gained her medical degree at the University of Paris in 1933.

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