Dr. Joycelyn Elders: Great Sluts in History
9 min readMay 13, 2020
“Once I had a professor say to me, ‘You know you have as much education as a lot of white people.’ I answered, ‘Doctor, I have more education than most white people.’”
In 1978, Dr. Joycelyn Elders became the first person in the state of Arkansas to become board certified in pediatric endocrinology. Not the first African-American person, or the first woman, the first person.
