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Black
Nurses in History
adapted from University of Medicine and Dentistry
of New Jersey
The nursing literature is rich with information on the history of
Black nurses and their struggle for equality in the profession.
Here are some references and web sites that pay tribute to their
hard work and courage.
"African American nurses significant in state's nursing history."
Michigan Nurse. 67(2):6-7, 1994.
Booth J. "Mississippi's granny midwives: pre and post civil
wars." Mississippi RN. 55(6):20-2, 1993.
Brewman, MP. "The Negro Nurse." The Nation. 175(8):160,
1952.
Buhler-Wilkerson K. "Caring in its "proper place":
race and benevolence in Charleston, SC, 1813-1930." Nursing
Research. 41(1):14-20, 1992.
Campinha-Bacote J. "The Black nurses' struggle toward equality:
an historical account of the National Association of Colored Graduate
Nurses." Journal of National Black Nurses Association. 2(2):15-25,
1988.
Carnegie ME. "Black nurses in the United States: 1879-1992."
Journal of National Black Nurses Association. 6(1):13-8, 1992.
Carnegie ME. The path we tread : blacks in nursing worldwide, 1854-1994.3rd
ed. New York: National League for Nursing Press, 1995.
Elmore JA. "Black nurses: their service and their struggle."
American Journal of Nursing. 76(3):435-7, 1976.
Goldstein, RL. "Negro Nurses in Hospitals." American Journal
of Nursing. 60(2):215-217, 1960.
Holt, R. "Brown Women in White." Negro Digest. 3(2):9-13,
1944.
Jones, E. "The Negro Woman in the Nursing Profession."
The Messenger. 5(7):764-765, 1923.
Mosley MOP. "Beginning at the beginning: a history of the professionalization
of black nurses in America, 1908-1951." Journal of Cultural
Diversity. 2(4):101-9, 1995.
Mosley MOP. "A new beginning: the story of the National Association
of Colored Graduate Nurses, 1908-1951" Journal of National
Black Nurses Association. 8(1):20-32, 1996.
"The Negro Nurse." Opportunity. 15(11):325, 1937.
Pollitt P and Reese CN.; "St. Agnes School of Nursing: a legacy
of hope." ABNF Journal,; 11(1):3-6, 2000.
Smith SL. "White nurses, black midwives, and public health
in Mississippi, 1920-1950." Nursing History Review. 2:29-49,
1994.
Staupers, MK. "The Negro Nurse in America." Opportunity.
15(11):339-341, 1937.
Staupers, MK. No Time for Prejudice: A Story of the Integration
of Negroes in Nursing in the United States. New York: MacMillan,
1961.
Torsch VL. "Oklahoma's pioneer black nurses." Oklahoma
Nurse. 37(4):4, 1992.
Wilkins, Roy. "Black Women in White." The Negro Digest.
1(6):61-63, 1943
Mamie O. Hale
Bell PL. ""Making do" with the midwife: Arkansas's
Mamie O. Hale in the 1940s." Nursing History Review. 1:155-69,
1993.
Mary Eliza Mahoney
Chayer, ME. "Mary Eliza Mahoney." American Journal of
Nursing. 54(4):429-431, 1954.
Doona ME. "Glimpses of Mary Eliza Mahoney (7 May 1845 -- 4
January1929)."; Journal of Nursing History. 1(2):20-34, 1986.
Doona ME. "Mary Eliza Mahoney... Nursing History Society."
Massachusetts Nurse. 62(8):4-5, 1992.
More about Mary Eliza Mahoney
Jessie Sleet Scales
Mosley MOP. "Jessie Sleet Scales: first Black public health
nurse." ABNF Journal. 5(2):45-51, 1994.
Mary Seacole
Alexander, Ziggi, and Audrey Dewjee. "Mary Seacole." History
Today. 31:45, Sept. 1981.
Crawford P. "The other lady with the lamp... nursing legacy
of Mary Seacole." Nursing Times. 88(11):56-8, 1992.
Gustafson M. "Mary Seacole, the Florence Nightingale of Jamaica."
Christian Nurse International. 12(4):9, 1996.
King, A. "Mary Seacole, Part I: A Matter of Life." Essence
4(11):32, 1974.
King, A. "Mary Seacole, Part II: The Crimea." Essence.
4(12):68,94, 1974.
Messmer PR ; Parchment Y.; "Mary Grant Seacole: the first nurse
practitioner." Clinical Excellence for Nurse Practitioners.
2(1):47-51, 1998.
Payne D.; "Face to face... Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole
battle it out face to face." Nursing Times. 95(19):26-7, 1999.
Salvage J.; "Speaking out... Florence Nightingale... Mary Seacole.";
Nursing Times. 95(19):20, 1999
Smith, JP. "Mary Jane Seacole 1805-1881: a black British nurse."
Journal of Advanced Nursing. 9(5):427-428, 1984.
Watson, C. "Hidden from history... Mary Seacole, the black
nurse famous in her day for her work in the Crimea." Nursing
Times. 80(41):16-17, 1984.
More about Mary Seacole
Mary
Jane Seacole
Mary Seacole Resource Page
Mabel Keaton Staupers
"Mabel Staupers, who led battle to end prejudice, dies at 99."
American Journal of Nursing. 90(2):121, 1990.
Mosley MOP. "Mabel K. Staupers: a pioneer in professional nursing."
NHC Perspectives on Community. 16(1):12-7, 1995.
Staupers MK. No time for prejudice: A history of the integration
of Negro nursing in the United States. New York: Macmillan, 1961.
More about Mabel Keaton Staupers
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