Marie B. Lucas

Biography

Marie Bernadette Lucas (c. 1875 – February 23, 1935) was an African American physician, one of the earliest women to practice medicine in Washington, D.C. As a young woman, she worked in public schools in Washington, having studied at the Miner Normal School, a teachers' college for African American students. She married M. Grant Lucas, who at one time was principal of Blanche Kelso Bruce Elementary School and the Wormley School. The couple had one son, in 1907.

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