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On her first day of medical school at the University of Virginia in 1963, Vivian Pinn waited for the other students who looked like her to show up.
“The other women and other people of color must be late,” she remembers thinking, glancing around at the crowd of white men in the auditorium before her.
Then they called the roll.
“And I’m sitting in the back and I see, everybody’s there,” she said in a conversation with Robert Winn.
In 1967, Pinn became the second Black woman to graduate from University of Virginia School of Medicine.
In 1982, she was the first African American woman to chair an academic pathology department in the United States, at Howard University College of Medicine.
She went on to become the first full-time director of the Office of Research on Women’s Health at NIH in 1991.
Charlottesville wasn’t fully integrated when Pinn began medical school.
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