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 ...

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; ...

As a German plane buzzed overhead, nurse Helen ... worked in American units of the British and French armies. The U.S. military rejected for overseas service nurses who were African Americans ...