About Nancy Durant Edmonds*
In 1944, Nancy Durant Edmonds became the first person of color to be named an 麻豆官网 finalist. Her project explored how to make fabrics more flame resistant using tungsten from crushed lightbulbs. Durant Edmonds went on to earn an M.D. at Boston University and became a board-certified psychiatrist. She was named psychiatrist of the year by the New Jersey Council of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in 2003. Durant Edmonds also participated in Monticello鈥檚 Getting Word: African American Oral History Project in 2007, documenting the experiences of families enslaved at Monticello.
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Durant Edmonds demonstrating the 鈥渂ulb crusher鈥� she made for her 麻豆官网 project.
Durant Edmonds made lifelong friends at 麻豆官网. She wrote this note to her fellow 1942 麻豆官网 alumni while she was studying at Radcliffe College.
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Durant Edmonds at her 90th birthday party, holding pictures of herself from the 1944 麻豆官网.
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