Discover the remarkable life of Ella P. Stewart, a pioneering African American pharmacist and civil rights leader, through the recently featured JSTOR Daily article, “Toledo’s Most Singular Pharmacist.” Stewart, the first Black female graduate of the University of Pittsburgh pharmacy school documented her life in a series of scrapbooks. These scrapbooks now make up the Ella P. Stewart Scrapbooks Collection in the archive at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. Portions of these scrapbooks have been digitized and are available for viewing on Reveal Digital, JSTOR’s initiative that develops open primary source collections from under-represented 20th-century voices, as part of their Behind the Scenes of the Civil Rights Movements Collection.
Central to her legacy, these scrapbooks contain a collection of news clippings, photographs, and letters that chronicle her personal and professional milestones. Read more about Stewart in the JSTOR Daily article here.
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Read MoreUpcoming events hosted by AIHP
December 17, 2025, 11:00 am (Central): Pharmacy History Working Group: Beyond medical pluralism: Interactions between physician-pharmacists and other craftspeople in the Graeco-Roman world with Laurence Totelin, Cardiff University.
January, 21, 2026, 11:00 am (Central): Pharmacy History Working Group: Spring Semester Welcome Back Event: A critical reading of Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls, hosted by Kelly O'Donnell, Towson Unviersity.
February 18, 2026, 11:00 am (Central): Pharmacy History Working Group: Audrey Ke Zhao, UC Santa Cruz & CHSTM Research Fellow
March 18, 2026, 11:00 am (Central): Pharmacy History Working Group: Ryan A. Kashanipour, University of Arizona
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Upcoming events of interest to pharmacists and historians of pharmacy, pharmaceuticals, medicines, science, and related fields.
December 7-11, 2025: ASHP Midyear, Las Vegas, NV.
January 14, 2026: JCPP January 2026, Alexandria, VA.
March 27-30, 2026: APhA 2026, Los Angeles, CA.
April 18-21, 2026: NACDS Annual Meeting, Palm Beach, FL.
June 3-7, 2026: AAHM 2026, Buffalo, NY.
June 13-17, 2026: ASHP Pharmacy Futures, Charlotte, NC.
June 25, 2026: JCPP June 2026, Alexandria, VA.
July 18-21, 2026: AACP Pharmacy Education, Grapevine, TX.
September 17, 2026: JCPP September 2026, Alexandria, VA.
October 3-6, 2026: 2026 NCPA Annual Convention, Kansas City.