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.” 44 years of practice in Newark. Graduate of the Women’s College of Medicine, Philadelphia. Physician for the City of Newark from 1934. Received MS in public health from Columbia 1939. First female doctor on the cover of NMA Journal in Jul 1963.
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
“E. Mae McCarroll M.D.” Journal of the American Medical Society, 1984, pg. 776