![]() ![]() At the time, she was 26 years old, and the only woman and only person of color in her entire graduating class. She went on to graduate from the University of Southern California’s College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1916 with an M.D., becoming the first known American born Chinese woman physician in the United States. Margaret was a 16-year-old, first-generation Chinese American who was teaching English in the “ Chinese colony” of Los Angeles, California, while working to help support her large family. “Margaret Jessie Chung has Aspirations,” the Los Angeles Herald headline read on October 10, 1905. ![]() The following is a guest post from Meg Metcalf, a reference librarian in the Main Reading Room, currently on detail in the Serial and Government Publications Division. ![]()
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