Nancy Leftenant-Colon, the first Black woman to serve in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps when it was desegregated after World War II and the sister of one of the famed Tuskegee Airmen pilots ...

First, men -- no matter their race -- were unable to join the Army as nurses. (That prohibition lasted until 1955.) Second, the Army Nurse Corps (ANC) was dragging its feet on accepting Black women.

Nancy Leftenant-Colon, Who Was the First Black Woman in Army Nurse Corps, Has Died The first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after the military was desegregated in the 1940s has died.

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - A Lowcountry native who became the nation’s first Black military nurse will be laid to rest in New ...

In 1879, Mary Eliza Mahoney became the first Black registered nurse in the United States, completing an intensive 16-month program at the New England Hospital for Women and Children. The program ...

1 At the time, Black women were able to work as nurses, however, Mary Eliza Mahoney stood apart as the first Black woman to graduate from a nursing program and obtain a professional nursing license.

It was early in her nursing career at the Clinton Infirmary where she broke the color line — became the first black registered nurse to be hired in East Feliciana Parish, she said. It was 1975 ...

Nancy Leftenant-Colon became the first African-American woman to serve in the desegregated Regular Army Nurse Corps. (CAF RISE ABOVE) Nancy Leftenant-Colon, the first Black woman to serve in the U ...

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A crash on Friday, May 23, 2025, closed a portion of Southeast Loop 410 and Moursund Boulevard on the South Side. Get ready for some fabulous deals for when you're on the go, your beauty routine ...