To all you beautiful and courageous nurses (which personally after having my surgeries, I believe you more than anyone are the unsung superheroes in hospitals – just saying!) Want to take a guess who was the first African American to graduate from an American school of nursing? Here is a clue
Mary Eliza Mahoney, (1845 – 1926) was the first African-American to study and work as a professionally trained nurse in the United States, graduating in 1879. Mahoney was one of the first African Americans to graduate from a nursing school, and she prospered in a predominantly white society. She also challenged discrimination against African Americans in nursing.
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Madam C. J. Walker, was an African-American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and a political and social activist. She was eulogized as one of the first female self-made millionaires in the United States, she became one of the wealthiest self-made women in America and one of the most successful women and African-American business owners ever.Â
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Carter G. Woodson, (December 19, 1875 – April 3, 1950) was an American historian, author, journalist and the founder of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History. He was one of the first scholars to study African-American history and is known as the “father of black history”. In February 1926 he launched the celebration of “Negro History Week”, the precursor of Black History Month.
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Carter Godwin Woodson, (December 19, 1875 – April 3, 1950) was an American historian, author, journalist, and the founder of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History. He was one of the first scholars to study the history of the African diaspora, including African-American history. A founder of The Journal of Negro History in 1916, Woodson has been called the “father of black history”.[2] In February 1926 he launched the celebration of “Negro History Week”, the precursor of Black History Month.[3]
Born in Virginia, the son of former slaves, Woodson had to put off schooling while he worked in the coal mines of West Virginia. He graduated from Berea College, and became a teacher and school administrator. He gained graduate degrees at the University of Chicago and in 1912 was the second African American, after W. E. B. Du Bois, to obtain a PhD degree from Harvard University. Most of Woodson’s academic career was spent at Howard University, a historically black university in Washington, D.C., where he eventually served as the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.
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George Franklin Grant, (1846 – 1910) was the first African-American professor at Harvard. He was also a Boston dentist , and an inventor of a wooden golf tee.
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Thomas L. Jennings, (1791 – February 12, 1856) was an African-American was tradesman and abolitionist in New York city, New York. He operated and owned a tailoring business. Thomas Jennings was the first African American to receive a patent, on March 3, 1821. His patent was for a dry-cleaning process called “dry scouring”. … Thomas L. Jennings Dry Scouring technique created modern day dry cleaning.
Thomas L. Jennings was born free to a free African-American family in New York City. As a youth he learned a trade as a tailor. He built a business and married a woman named Elizabeth, who was born in 1798 in Delaware into slavery and died March 5, 1873. Under New York’s gradual abolition law of 1799, she was converted to the status of an indentured servant and was not eligible for full emancipation until 1827. Children born to slave mothers before 1827 were considered to be born free, but were required to serve apprenticeships to the mothers’ masters until they reached their mid- to late 20s
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