Ionia Rollin Whipper, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ionia Rollin Whipper

American physician

Date of Birth: 08-Sep-1872

Place of Birth: Beaufort, South Carolina, United States

Date of Death: 13-Apr-1953

Profession: physician, obstetrician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Ionia Rollin Whipper (1872–1953) was an African American obstetrician and public health outreach worker.
A 1903 graduate of Howard University School of Medicine, she was one of the few African-American women physicians of her generation.
During the mid-1920s, she worked for the United States Children's Bureau; her work there involved traveling the rural South and training midwives to use sterile delivery techniques and to register births. During a time when maternity homes for unwed mothers were for white women only, she opened her home to unwed mothers of color.
Eventually, with the help of donations, she established a separate home for her work with these women, which still bears her name.