DC. Edwards set up a medical practice In Jersey City after graduating from Howard University Medical School in 1924. An obstetriciangynecologist. she tended to the needs of the European immigrants in the citys Lafayette section. Edwards also founded the Peoples Charitable League. which opened a day nursery in Jersey City. Edwards was an early promoter of natural childbirth and was appointed a resident at the Margaret Hague Maternity Hospital in 1944. She practiced in Jersey City until 1960 when she traveled to St. Josephs Mission at Hereford. TX. to work with Mexican migrant workers. who were badly in need of prenatal care. Using her own money. Edwards established a modern maternity hospital for the labor camp.
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