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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.
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: Subject file; National Association of Army Nurses of the Civil War, 1899-1900. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Library of Congress (Manuscript Division). Stearns, Amanda Akin. The Lady Nurse of Ward E. New York, New York: The Baker & Taylor Company, 1909. "The Diary of a Civil War Nurse." Washington, D.C.: Albert H. Small ...
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]
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...