Justina Ford is famous for being the only doctor in Colorado who was an African American women.

She was born in 1871 in Knoxville, Illinois. She grew up a few miles away in Galesburg. When she was growing up she wanted to be a doctor. She graduated from Herring Medical College in Chicago in 1899.
She moved to Denver, Colorado. She applied for her medical license. They didn't want to give her a license because she was black and a woman. But she opened up a practice anyway. She took care of poor people of all races. By 1950 she was still the only African American woman doctor in Colorado.

She delivered somewhere between 5,000 and 7,000 babies in her whole career. In 1952 she died. People remember her to this day for what she did.

Before her death she said "...When all the fears, and even some death is over, we will really be brothers as God intended us to be in this land. This I believe. For this I have worked all my life." She was a great doctor and she is very important to us.

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