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In her private practice, she provided care for black patients who would not otherwise receive treatment in white facilities. She was also a strong advocate of early cancer screening. She was an African American descendant of the Chickahominy people , a smaller group within the large Algonquin tribe.

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Tiffany , a jeweler living in Irvington, New York. Living with the white Tiffany family, Chinn was exposed to classical music and taught German and French. Despite not finishing high school due to poverty, Dr. Chinn took the entrance examination to Columbia Teachers College, matriculating in Her scientific aptitude was recognized by Jean Broadhurts , her bacteriology professor at the college.

She graduated from Columbia Teachers College in and continued working in the lab. Chinn was an active member of Delta Sigma Theta.

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In February , she was among the first group of women initiated into the Alpha Beta Chapter of the sorority alongside Eslanda Goode Robeson. Chinn proceeded to study medicine at Bellevue Hospital Medical College , becoming its first African-American woman graduate in With her fair skin and last name, many assumed that she was white or Chinese.

Harlem Hospital was the only medical institution in the city that offered Chinn an internship. Chinn was the first African-American woman to intern there and to accompany paramedics on ambulance calls. She confronted another obstacle when the hospital refused her practicing privileges there.