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L. Eudora Ashburne

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Lydia Eudoria Ashburne Evans (c. 1887 – January 14, 1992) was an African-American female physician. In 1912 she became the first African-American woman to graduate from Howard University School of Medicine and the first African-American woman licensed as a general practitioner in Virginia, following Sarah Garland Boyd Jones's 1893 licensure as the first African-American woman certified by the Virginia State Medical Examining Board.

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