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Ruth Carol Taylor (December 27, 1931 – May 12, 2023) was the first African-American flight attendant in the United States. [1] Her first flight was aboard a Mohawk Airlines flight from Ithaca to New York City in 1958. [2]
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.
Mildred Louise Hemmons Carter (1921–2011) was one of the first women to earn a pilot's license through the Civilian Pilot Training Program, making her the first black female pilot in Alabama. Though she was denied admission into the Tuskegee Airmen and the Women Airforce Service Pilots , she was declared an official member of both later in life.
This was the first time that a first Air National Guard nurse had been sole charge of a clinic. [2] In 1987 she was promoted to major general in the US National Guard. She was the first African American woman to achieve that rank. [1] In 2001 she retired but decided to take a new role championing the rights of veterans. [3]
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]
Mary Louise Petty (January 4, 1916 – September 14, 2001) was an American army nurse during World War II. Petty was the first Black member of the U.S. Army Nurse Corps to achieve the rank of captain. She supervised a nurse training program at Fort Huachuca, and led the first group of Black nurses sent to serve in Europe in 1945.
Janet Harmon Waterford Bragg (born Jane Nettie Harmon) [1] (March 24, 1907 — April 11, 1993) was an American amateur aviator. [2] In 1942, she was the first African-American woman to hold a commercial pilot license. [3] [4] She is a 2022 inductee to the Georgia Aviation Hall of Fame. [5]
[3] [5] Dean was the first African-American flight nurse in the United States Air Force. [6] The organization was formed to utilize the skill sets of women in the U.S. to help with moral and social issues, especially those affecting the youth. [7] [5] The organization was incorporated in 1964 and held its first national convention in 1969. [3]