"We must teach these people the laws of health; we must preach this new gospel, That gospel, was that the respectability of a household ought to be measured by the condition of the cellar."
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Social activistsWomen born in the 19th centuryAfrican AmericansWomen activists from the United StatesPhysicians from Philadelphia
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Cole wrote in an 1896 issue of the periodical The Woman’s Era.
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Rebecca Cole
Rebecca Cole (March 16, 1846 – August 14, 1922) was an American physician, organization founder and social reformer. In 1867, she became the second African-American woman to become a doctor in the United States, after Rebecca Lee Crumpler three years earlier.
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