Dr. Nathan F. Mossell, M.D.

Dr. Nathan F. Mossell, M.D.

1940s

Mosley, John W.

Dr. Nathan Francis Mossell was the first African American to earn a medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania Medical School in 1882. He was founder of the Frederick Douglass Memorial Hospital; the first African American member of the Philadelphia County Medical Society; a member of the Niagara Movement; founder of the Philadelphia branch of the NAACP; co-founder of the Philadelphia Academy of Medicine and Allied Sciences; a civil rights activist; and nationally prominent physician and surgeon.

African American physicians

African American men

African American civil rights workers

Mossell, Nathan Francis, 1856-1946

Philadelphia (Pa.)

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Photographs

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John W. Mosley Photograph Collection

John W. Mosley Photographs

William Still Collection

Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection

Philadelphia PA: Temple University Libraries

Mosley, John W.--Photographs--Physicians

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