The first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after the military was desegregated in the 1940s has died. She was 104. Nancy Leftenant-Colon, who retired as a major and died earlier this ...

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Nancy Leftenant-Colon, who battled racial discrimination in a barrier-breaking career as a military nurse, serving as the first African American in the regular Army Nurse Corps and later caring ...

After years of being barred from a segregated military, she became the first Black nurse ... into the Army Reserve. She was one of just 500 Black nurses to serve during World War II, out of ...

The first Black woman to join the US Army Nurse Corps after the military was ... an organization honoring the famed group of Black World War II pilots. In 2007, Leftenant-Colon joined fellow ...

Nancy Leftenant-Colon, the first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after the military was desegregated in the 1940s, died Jan. 8. Here, an American flag is presented to Leftenant-Colon ...

Don’t fall for the false signs saying you need a new computer The first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after the military was desegregated in the 1940s has died. She was 104.