"BLACK PAST PHOTO OF THE DAY: Born in 1856 in Ontario, Canada, but raised
just across the border in Lockport, NY, Nathan Francis Mossell went on
to become the first African American to
graduate from the University of Pennsylvania Medical School. Due to
prejudice in hospitals, this great-grandson of slaves had to travel all
the way to London, England, just to intern after med school. Ten years
later, in 1895, Mossell founded the 2nd African American hospital in the
U.S. - the Frederick Douglass Memorial Hospital in Philadelphia. Learn
more about Nathan Mossell on BlackPast.org (link: http://bit.ly/14bWNvu)"
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