Carte Postale Mary Eliza Mahoney 1ère infirmière inscrite noire

Remember those who came before. Mary Eliza Mahoney (1845-1926) a été le premier Woman noir de l'Amérique à avoir une licence en nurse. Mahoney était le daughter of former slaves who moved to Boston. She was determined to become a nurse and worked as a janitor, washerwoman, cook, and nurse’s aide at the New England Hospital for Women and Children until she was finally accepted into the nursing program in 1878 at 33 years. Le formal nursing training, une of the first in the nation, était un programme intensive de 16 month. Ou les 42 femmes ont commencé à travailler, seulement 4 ont terminé, y compris Mary Mahoney. This made her the first African-American registered nurse in the country. Mahoney choose to work as a private nurse for wealthier Family because of the discrimination she faced at public hospitals. Facing more discrimination from nursing organiszations, she co-founded the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses (NACGN) in 1908. Plus tard, occupez le poste de directeur du programme Howard Orphanage Asylum for African-American Children. Ever the pioneer for equality, she is among the first women who registered to vote in Boston after passage of the 19th Amendment.