After she met with the board in person, they appointed her to the internship by a unanimous vote. In 1878 she applied for an internship at Boston's New England Hospital for Women and Children, but her initial application was rejected by the hospital board because of her race. Two years later, she completed her studies at Howard University College of Medicine, then earned her Doctor of Medicine degree at the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1878, one of only two black students. She married her first husband in 1869, but he died in 1875. She was elected as the first black president of the Ladies’ Literary Society of Oberlin.
She attended the Institute for Colored Youth, then went to Oberlin College, where she was the only black student in her class, and the youngest graduate of her year, earning her degree at 19. Her parents were both leaders in the abolitionist movement – her father was the head of the Philadelphia branch of the Underground Railroad. She was one of the first American black women to become a doctor, and was a pioneering physician in Philadelphia’s black community.
After Stephen took back the throne in 1148, she returned to Normandy, leaving her eldest son to continue the campaign – he would succeed to the throne as Henry II in 1154. After four years with her second husband, Geoffrey of Anjou, in Anjou and Normandy, she crossed the channel to take the kingdom by force, but the power shifted back and forth battle by battle, and she was never able to fully reign. When Henry died in 1135, she was opposed by the barons, and her cousin Stephen of Blois took the throne. After her only brother’s death in 1120, she was nominated by her father King Henry I of England as his heir, making his court swear an oath of loyalty to her and her successors, but this was not popular in the Anglo-Norman court. She had been married at an early age to Holy Roman Emperor Henry V, but they had no children, and he died in 1125. Novem– Empress Matilda’s disputed reign (1141-1148) as ‘Lady of the English’ ends as Stephen of Blois retakes the throne of England.
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