Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index James McCune Smith (1813 - November 17, 1865), born to an enslaved mother in New York, was the first professionally trained African-American doctor. He attended the University of Glasgow in Scotland, where he received a doctorate in medicine in 1837. While in Scotland, Smith was a member of the Glasgow Emancipation Society. During the 1850s, he helped Frederick Douglass to establish the National Council of the Colored People. Some of his published essays A Lecture on the Haitian Revolution, (1841) The Destiny of the People of Color External links African American Registry article This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.