Matilda Arabella Evans was born in Aiken, South Carolina back in 1872 to Anderson and Harriet. She received her education at the Schofield Industrial School after graduation she attended Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio. After graduation, she taught school at the Haines Institute in Augusta, Georgia.
After just one year she continued her education at the Woman’s Medical College in Philadelphia. She graduated in 1897, with a medical degree moving to Columbia, South Carolina to start her practice. Her practice was in obstetrics, gynecology and surgery. She helped in establishing the Taylor Lane Hospital in Columbia. She died in 1935.
What you may not know about Matilda is that she was the first African-American woman licensed to practice medicine in South Carolina and the only black woman in the United States to serve as the president of a state medical association when she became president of South Carolina’s Palmetto Medical Association.
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