Dr. Frances Cress-Welsing was born March 18, 1935, in Chicago, IL. She died on January 2, 2016, in Washington, D.C. The second of three girls, Welsing was born into a family that had already produced two doctors. She received her Bachelor’s of Science from Antioch College in Ohio in 1957 and her medical degree (M.D.) from Howard University in 1962.