She was later an Air Force officer. By Clay Risen Nancy Leftenant-Colon, a granddaughter of enslaved people who in 1948 became the first Black nurse to serve in the regular U.S. armed forces ...
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 ...
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Nancy Leftenant-Colon, who was the first Black woman in Army Nurse Corps, has diedThe first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after the military was desegregated in the 1940s has died. She was ...
Colon, the first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after the military was desegregated in the 1940s, has passed ...
She was 104. Nancy Leftenant-Colon, who retired as a major and died earlier this month at a New York nursing home, was remembered by relatives and friends for quietly breaking down racial barriers ...
I was interested to read the article about Nancy Leftenant-Colon’s life as a military nurse you published Sunday, Jan. 26, originally written for The Washington Post by Harrison Smith (”Nancy ...
FILE - An American flag is presented to Nancy Leftenant-Colon during a memorial service for her brother, Tuskegee Airmen, 2nd Lt. Samuel G. Leftenant, at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., ...
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