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Meet Colorado College history professor Jane Murphy, CC students Sabrina Brewer and Brian DeLong, and Denver-based filmmaker Sylvia Lambe and learn about their new documentary on Dr. Justina Ford, the first African-American woman licensed to practice medicine in the Colorado.
Starting in 1902, she worked as a pediatrician and gynecologist from her Denver home since African-Americans were barred from working in Colorado hospitals until 1950, two years before her death at age 81. It is estimated that she delivered almost 8,000 babies during her career.