Alice Woodby McKane

Alice Woodby McKane (1865– 6 March 1948) was the first woman to work as a medical doctor in Savannah, Georgia. She was not only known as a physician but also as a politician and an author. She and her husband Cornelius McKane contributed an important part in medical history. She opened the first school of nurse training for black people in Savannah. She also helped her husband to make his dream which was opening the Hospital in Liberia come true. After returning from Liberia, they established the MCKane Hospital for Women and Children and later was known as Charity Hospital to treat for all people in Savannah, especially for African American people. died before she reached the age of seven and she lost her vision for three years. Alice attended public schools and Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute in Virginia. As an undergraduate student of the Institute for Colored Youth, which later became Cheyney University of Pennsylvania, she was a secretary of the principal Fannie Coppin. She graduated from the Institute for Colored Youth in Philadelphia

Career Medical practice Alice moved to Augusta, Georgia, where she taught at the Haines Normal and Industrial Institute, now the Lucy Craft Laney High School. and moved with him to his physician's practice in Savannah. Alice died on March 6, 1948, at age eighty-three.