Mary Eliza Mahoney was the first black professional nurse in America, and an active organizer among African American nurses ... in that hospital's nursing school, the first professional nursing ...

Muriel Walker was the first African-American registered nurse that was hired at Akron General Cleveland Clinic, formerly known as the People’s hospital. But, she was also the first African ...

A demand for nurse-midwifery ... service and school in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and gave partial funding for two educational programs in the South designed to educate African American nurses in ...

“It was the only option that we had. There was no other school for African American students during that time,” Beulah First Baptist Church Senior Pastor Felix Cole said. The school is next to ...

They have received fellowships from the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American research; the Kennedy School's Taubman Center for State and Local Government at Harvard University; ...