Black Enterprise15d
Nancy Leftenant-Colon, The First Black Woman To Serve In The Desegregated U.S. Army Nurse Corps, Dies
The history-maker aspired to become a nurse after graduating from Amityville Memorial High School in 1939 ... that only accepted white mothers at the time rejected the Black mother of that ...
Houston Public Media15d
First Black woman to serve in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after desegregation dies
Leftenant-Colon graduated from Amityville Memorial High School in 1939 and dreamed of being a nurse ... only accepted white patients at the time, refused to allow the Black mother to give birth ...
MyNorthwest.com8d
Nancy Leftenant-Colon, who was the first Black woman in Army Nurse Corps, has died
The first Black woman to join ... She retired as a chief nurse in 1965, according to the Tuskegee Airmen Inc. website. From there, she served as a school nurse at Amityville Memorial High School ...
The Advocate10d
What was it like to be the first black nurse in East Feliciana Parish? Local nurse tells her story
As she began her job hunt, she faced rejection from places not wanting to hire a black woman. She was told that she was in “a white person ... would send her to nursing school at Southeastern ...
KBIA16d
First Black woman to serve in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after desegregation dies
Leftenant-Colon graduated from Amityville Memorial High School in 1939 and dreamed of being a nurse. She attended the ... The local hospital, which only accepted white patients at the time, refused to ...