| LC control no. | n 81097517 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Brown, Dorothy Lavinia |
| Variant(s) | Brown, D. (Dorothy) Brown, Dorothy, 1919- Brown, Dorothy L. (Dorothy Lavinia) Brown, Dorothy Lavania Brown, Dorothy Lavenia |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1919-01-07 |
| Death date | 2004-06-13 |
| Place of birth | Philadelphia (Pa.) |
| Place of death | Nashville (Tenn.) |
| Affiliation | Bennett College (Greensboro, N.C.) Meharry Medical College Hubbard Hospital (Nashville, Tenn.) American College of Surgeons Bennett College (Greensboro, N.C.) Harlem Hospital (New York, N.Y.) Delta Sigma Theta Sorority |
| Profession or occupation | Legislators Surgeons African American women physicians |
| Found in | The Doctor is a lady. [FS] 1967. Data from CINE for Run to live [MP] 1980 (Dr. Dorothy L. Brown) NUCMC data from Fisk Univ. for Dorothy Lavenia Brown papers, 1957-1976 (Nashville physician and surgeon; b. Jan. 7, 1919 in Phila., Pa.; first black female surgeon in the South; first black female legislator in Tenn.) Biography Resource Center, Dec. 12, 2003 (Dorothy Brown Also known as: Dorothy Lavinia Brown, Dorothy Lavania Brown, D. Brown; Dorothy Lavinia Brown was the first black female surgeon in the South. She was also the first black woman admitted to the American College of Surgeons, the first black woman to serve in the Tennessee State Legislature, and the first single woman to adopt a child in Tennessee) Information from 678 converted Dec. 19, 2014 (doctor) African American National Biography, accessed December 23, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Brown, Dorothy Lavinia; surgeon, state legislator; born 07 January 1919 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States; graduated from Bennett College in Greensboro, North Carolina (1941); joined the Delta Sigma Theta sorority; worked in the Rochester (New York) Army Ordnance Department; entered Meharry Medical College in Nashville (1944) and earned MD (1948); served her internship at Harlem Hospital in New York City; became a resident at the George W. Hubbard Hospital on the Meharry campus, Nashville (1949); became clinical professor of surgery at Meharry Medical College (1954) and chief of surgery at Riverside Hospital (1957); fellow of the American College of Surgeons (1959); elected to the Tennessee State Legislature (House of Representatives) as a Democrat (1967-1968); served as a member of the board of trustees of Bennett College and remained active in the United Methodist Church; died 13 June 2004 in Nashville, Tennessee, United States) |
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