By Associated Press
Sunday, October 17, 2010 - 9:20pm
BOSTON (AP) - Mildred Jefferson, the first black woman to
graduate from Harvard Medical School and a nationally recognized
leader of the anti-abortion movement, has died at age 84.
Anne Fox, the president of Massachusetts Citizens for Life, says
Jefferson died Friday in Cambridge. She says Jefferson recently
became ill.
Jefferson helped establish the National Right to Life Committee.
Communications director Derrick Jones says she was its at-large
director when she died.
Jefferson was born in Pittsburg, Texas, in 1926, the daughter of
a schoolteacher and a minister. She graduated from Texas College in
Tyler earned a master's degree from Tufts University in Medford,
Mass.
Jefferson had also taught as an assistant clinical professor of
surgery at Boston University Medical School. She was given honorary
degrees by 28 schools.
graduate from Harvard Medical School and a nationally recognized
leader of the anti-abortion movement, has died at age 84.
Anne Fox, the president of Massachusetts Citizens for Life, says
Jefferson died Friday in Cambridge. She says Jefferson recently
became ill.
Jefferson helped establish the National Right to Life Committee.
Communications director Derrick Jones says she was its at-large
director when she died.
Jefferson was born in Pittsburg, Texas, in 1926, the daughter of
a schoolteacher and a minister. She graduated from Texas College in
Tyler earned a master's degree from Tufts University in Medford,
Mass.
Jefferson had also taught as an assistant clinical professor of
surgery at Boston University Medical School. She was given honorary
degrees by 28 schools.
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