Insightful Classroom Series - Field Of Medicine - Part 4 - James McCune Smith - Black History

Not just a physician but also a scientist, novelist and spokesman. James McCune Smith was born in New York City on April 18, 1813. Identified early in his life as being intellectually gifted, he would go on to earn a master’s, and a medical degree. Smith believes he was living proof of how things could be different, his education and learning could demonstrate that he was the equal of any man, regardless of race. It was a belief he championed for the rest of his life.

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