Dr. Susan McKinney Steward is the first African American woman physician in New York and the third African American woman physician in the U.S.

In 1870, she graduated from the New York Medical School for Women and Children as valedictorian of her class. She helped found the Women’s Royal Union of New York and Brooklyn and served as an active member of the Kings County Homeopathic Society. Dr. McKinney did postgraduate work at Long Island College Hospital and had a successful private practice in Brooklyn for more than 20 years. She eventually opened a second office in Manhattan.

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