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Mary Eliza Mahoney (May 7, 1845 – January 4, 1926) was the first African-American to study and work as a professionally trained nurse in the United States.In 1879, Mahoney was the first African American to graduate from an American school of nursing.
Formal training and recognition of African-American women began in 1858 when Sarah Mapps Douglass was the first black woman to graduate from a medical course of study at an American university. [1] Later, in 1864 Rebecca Crumpler became the first African-American woman to earn a medical degree. The first nursing graduate was Mary Mahoney in 1879.
Daurene Lewis, nurse and first Black woman mayor in North America; Janet Lim (1923-2014), nurse at St. Andrew's Community Hospital. She was the first nurse from Singapore to study in Britain. She was inducted as 2014 Singapore Women's Hall of Fame. [5] Mary Todd Lincoln (1818-1882), volunteer nurse during the American Civil War
Hazel Winifred Johnson-Brown (October 10, 1927 – August 5, 2011) [1] [2] was a nurse and educator who served in the United States Army from 1955 to 1983. In 1979, she became the first Black female general in the United States Army and the first Black chief of the United States Army Nurse Corps. [3]
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:American nurses. It includes nurses that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Subcategories
National Black Nurses Association (NBNA): In response to being shut out of the American Nurses Association, Dr. Betty Smith Williams & Dr. Barbara Johnson, created the Council of Black Nurses in ...
Follow the national change, several state Leagues of Nursing Education began admitting black members. [2] By the end of World War II there were only 2.9 percent black nurses (compared to blacks making up 10 percent of the population) or eight thousand registered black nurses in the United States. [11]
Margaret Taylor grew up in Arlington when the city’s schools were still segregated. She traveled 13 miles daily by bus to attend I.M. Terrell High School in Fort Worth.