1898-1990
Dr. E Mae McCarroll was the first American American physician at Newark City Hospital in 1946. She said she was “pleased to represent the beginning of greater opportunities for Negro physicians in our city.”
Mae practice for 44 years in Newark. She was physician for the City of Newark from 1934.
Mae received MS in public health from Columbia 1939. She was a graduate of the Women’s College of Medicine, Philadelphia.
In June 1963, Mae was the first female doctor on the cover of NMA Journal and was honored by the NMA in 1973.
Mae was also involved in the NAACP, Fuld Neighborhood House, Neighborhood Guild, and League of Women Voters. She was past president of the North Jersey Medical Society and NJ State Medical Association.
Photo from Newark Public Library.
Bibliography
NJ Women’s Project, Past and Promise: Lives of New Jersey Women
M-02 McCarroll, Dr. Mae, Newark News Morgue, Newark Public Library
Material digitized by Newark Library (Second Link)
“E. Mae McCarroll M.D.” Journal of the American Medical Society, 1984, pg. 776
Kukla, Barbara “Mourners Recall the Life of a Pioneering Physician” Star Ledger Mar 12, 1990
“Negro Put On Hospital Staff” Newark News Jan 4, 1946