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Sojourner Truth examining the Bible with Abraham Lincoln, Civil War-era print. During the Civil War, Truth helped recruit black troops for the Union Army; after the war, she tried unsuccessfully to secure land grants from the federal government for formerly enslaved people (summarized as the promise of "forty acres and a mule"). She continued ...
Sarah Emma Edmonds (born Sarah Emma Evelyn Edmondson, [1] married name Seelye, alias Franklin Flint Thompson; December 1841 – September 5, 1898) was a British North America-born woman who claimed to have served as a man with the Union Army as a nurse and spy during the American Civil War. Although recognized for her service by the United ...
Susie King Taylor, first African-American to serve as a U.S. Army Nurse in the Civil War. [34] Sojourner Truth worked as a nurse while she was enslaved. Later, she advocated for formal training. [35] [36] W. Emma Wakefield-Paillet in 1898 became the first African American woman physician in Louisiana. [37]
Clarissa Harlowe Barton (December 25, 1821 – April 12, 1912) was an American nurse who founded the American Red Cross.She was a hospital nurse in the American Civil War, a teacher, and a patent clerk.
“Florence Nightingale was a Civil War nurse,” Lisa pointed out. “She was one of the founders of a nursing school for women providing health care for the veterans.” ...
Before taking the name Sojourner Truth, Isabella Bomfree was born into slavery in or around 1797 in the Hudson Valley. She walked away from the home of her final owner in 1826 with her infant ...
At the outbreak of the American Civil War, Etheridge enlisted in the 2nd Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment, serving as a nurse and vivandière. Her desire to become a nurse stemmed from caring for her father before his death. Before the war, Etheridge worked in a hospital with a poor reputation for patient care, which she had attempted to ...
Sojourner Truth, human rights activist, delivered her famous "Ain't I a Woman" speech in Akron. This speech will be dramatized during the HHA program Life of Sojourner Truth highlighted in Hudson ...