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Alice Woodby McKane

I can add more information about Alice Woodby McKane's life and her career achievements. She was the only black female physician in Georgia in 1892. She generated the nursing program which was two-year courses for both males and females. .

She established MCKane Hospital in 1896. After her husband passed away in 1912, she joined NAACP. She was author who published two books: The Fraternal Sick Book(1913) and a book of poetry entitled Clover Leaves (1914).

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Alice Woodby McKane (1865-1948) was the first black women to work as an doctor in Savannah, Georgia. She was not only known as a physician but also as a politician and an author. She and her husband Cornelius McKane contributed a important part in medical history. She opened the first school of nurse training for black people. She went to Africa with her husband to make his dream which was opening the Hospital in Liberia come true. After returning back from Liberia, they established the MCKane Hospital for Women and Children and later was known as Charity Hospital to treat for all people in Savannah, especially for African American people.

Childhood and education

Alice Woodby McKane was born on February 12, 1865 in Bridgewater, Pennsylvania . Her parents who were Charles and Elizabeth Frazier Woodby died before she turned to seven, and she lost her vision for three years. She attended to the public schools and Hampton Institute in Virginia. As an undergraduate student of the Institute for Colored Youth, which later became Cheyney Normal School in Cheyney, Pennsylvania, she was a secretary of the principal Fannie Coppin. She graduated the Institute for Colored Youth and entered to the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1889. In 1892, she graduated and received a medical degree with high honors.

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Alice moved to to Augusta, Geogia where she worked as resident physician and instructor in physiology and chemistry at the Haines Normal and Industrial Institue, now Lucy Craft Laney High School. She was the only black female physician in Georgia in 1892. She met her husband, Cornelius McKane who was the grandson of a Liberian King and the physician and surgeon, and moved with him to his practice in Savannah. In 1893, the coupe opened the McKane Training School for Nurses, a school for black nurse and the first one of its kind in Southeast Georgia. The first two-year course was begun on September 1, 1893. Alice work as a principal of the school. Students who wanted to apply to this course were required to pass a test about English, mathematic and geography. The course provided all necessary knowledges about anatomy, physiology, hygiene, midwifery, therapeutic,and chemistry for students. The course was completed in May 1895.

After finishing the first course, her husband decided to go back to Africa. The McKane Training School for Nurses were taken by William Christopher Blackman. They went to New York to prepare food and medical supplies to their trip to Liberia on June 5, 1895. In August 1895, they opened the first hospital along with a drugstore and a nurse training school in Monrovia, Liberia. By requiring of U.S. Government, Alice was chosen to do health examination for black Civil War veterans who came to Liberia from America. In 1896, she contracted African fever. She and her husband were forced to return back to America. They came back to Savannah in February 1896. She continued to develop the MCKane Training School for Nurses and establish the MCKane Hospital for Women and Children. In 1901, the hospital was changed the name to the Charity Hospital.

In 1909, Alice and her husband moved to Boston for better educational opportunities for their children. After her husband-Cornelius McKane passed away at age fifty in 1912, Alice continued her medical career and also engaged to political activities and writing. She participated in the women's suffrage movement. She was a Republican committee woman and a member of the National Associate for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). She published two books. The first book was The Fraternal Sick Book which was written about healing in 1913. One year latter, she wrote a book of poetry entitled Clover Leaves. She died on March 6, 1948 at age eighty-three.