Lucy Hughes Brown

Lucy Hughes Brown (12 ga Afrilu, 1863 – 26 ga Yuni, 1911) ita ce mace bakar fata ta farko da ta samu lasisin aikin likitanci a jihohin North Carolina da South Carolina. Haka kuma, ta kasance ɗaya daga cikin waɗanda suka kafa makarantar koyar da jinya da asibiti. Hughes Brown ta kasance mai fafutuka kuma mawaƙiya.“First Colored woman to pass….” The Kansas BlackMan, August 17, 1894, p. 1Gertrude Ramsey, “Pioneer Women Doctors Early Found Favor in N.C.” Asheville Citizen-Times, march 6, 1949 

 Rayuwa ta farko da ilimi 
An haifi Lucy Hughes Brown maraya  a Mebane, North Carolina, a ranar 12 ga Afrilu, 1863 .   Ta halarci makarantar sakandare ta Scotia a Concord, ta kammala a 1885. A makarantar sakandare ta Scotia, ta sadu da Sarah Dudley Pettey wacce ta gabatar da ita ga fafutuka. Ta ci gaba da karatu a Kwalejin Kiwon Lafiya ta Mata ta Pennsylvania, ta kammala karatu tare da digiri na likita a shekara ta 1894.  Ta kasance ɗaya daga cikin mata hamsin da biyu a cikin ajiyarta. Ta kuma kasance wakili na Ƙungiyar Mata ta Afirka ta Amirka kuma ta halarci taron su a Washington DC a shekara ta 1896.“women doctors” The Philadelphia inquirer, May 9, 1894, p. 2"Colored Women: National Federation of Afro-American Women in Congress,” Lexington Daily Leader, July 20, 1896 p. 3 

 Waƙoƙi 
Bayan kammala karatunsa daga makarantar sakandare ta Scotia, Hughes ya fara rubuta waka. Ana kiran waƙoƙinta guda biyu da suka fi shahara "Tunanin Ragewa" da "A Retrospective".

 Ayyuka 
Lucy Hughes Brown an ba ta lasisi don yin aiki a Arewacin Carolina a watan Mayu na shekara ta 1894, kuma tana ɗaya daga cikin mata uku da aka ba da lasisi a wannan shekarar.  Hughes Brown ita ce mace ta farko ta Afirka da aka ba da lasisi don yin aikin likita a Arewacin Carolina. Brown ta yi aikin likita a Wilmington, North Carolina na tsawon shekaru biyu, sannan a 1896 ita da mijinta suka koma Charleston, SC. Ita ce kuma mace ta farko a Afirka ta Kudu a matsayin likitan Afirka.

A shekara ta 1900, Hughes Brown ta zauna a Charleston a titin Nassau 11, an lissafa Dokta Brown a matsayin likita a cikin kundin birni, kuma ta tallata ayyukanta a cikin takarda.Professional Cards, The Afro-American Citizen, January 17, 1900, p. 2

Ta shiga tare da wasu masu sana'a baƙar fata - ciki har da Dokta Alonzo Clifton McClennan - don kafa Asibitin Canon da Makarantar Horar da Nurses a cikin 1897.   A asibitin Canon da makarantar Horarwa, ta koyar da Nursing na haihuwa da Kula da Jarirai. Ta kasance shugabar sashen jinya na makarantar da shirin horar da shi, wanda ya kammala karatun sa na farko a shekara ta 1898.   Brown kuma ya kasance mataimakin edita na jaridar likitancin baki ta farko a jihar, Hospital Herald, wanda aka kafa a cikin 1898. A cikin 1902, British Journal of Nursing ta amince da ita a matsayin jagora a cikin sana'arta a Kudancin Carolina . 

Brown ya mutu a Charlotte a ranar 26 ga Yuni, 1911. 

 Rayuwar Iyali 
A shekara ta 1889 ta auri David Brown, wani limami kuma malami. Hughes Brown ta koma Kudancin Carolina saboda aikin mijinta; Reverend Brown ita ce shugabar Kwalejin Wallingford, makarantar 'yan Afirka ta Afirka da aka kafa a 1865, kuma wani minista ne ya shirya ta tare da Ikilisiyar Presbyterian ta Sihiyona. A lokacin mutuwar Hughes Brown, iyalin sun koma Charlotte, North Carolina, inda Reverend David Brown ya koyar a Jami'ar Biddle,   "Makarantar Presbyterian ga maza"Biddle Professor Dies, Charlotte Daily Observer, August 25, 1912, p. 2;Rev David Brown Dead at Biddle, Charlotte News, August 15, 1912, p. 6Charlotte City Directory, Piedmont Directory Company, 1911, p. 126 

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Rukuni:Mutuwan 1911