Dr. James McCune Smith. Creation: 1865. Photographer: Johnson, Williams & Co. (New York, N.Y). Collection: Cartes de visite. Photographs and PArints Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
James McCune Smith
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James Mccune Smith
Born in 1813. Graduate of the New York African Free School. First African American to receive a medical degree at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. Practiced as a doctor for nearly 20 years at the Colored Orphan Asylum in Manhattan. First African American to run a pharmacy in the United States. The pharmacy became a station on the Underground Railroad. Worked with Frederick Douglass to establish the National Council of the Colored People, and wrote the introduction to Frederick Douglass's book "My Bondage and My Freedom". James McCune Smith died in 1865.
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