Edelin (Kenneth C.) is born in Washington, D.C.

Inspired to become a doctor after his mother’s death from breast cancer, Kenneth Edelin graduates from Columbia University and Meharry Medical College, marries Ramona Hoage in 1967, and becomes the first African-American chief resident of the OB/GYN at Boston City Hospital in 1973. He is involved in a controversial abortion case in 1975,* becomes chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Boston University Medical School in 1979, and chairman of the Board of Planned Parenthood Federation of America in 1990. Edelin dies in Sarasota, Florida, on December 30, 2013.