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Black
Nurses in History
A Bibliography and Guide to Web Resources
The nursing literature
is rich with information on the history of Black nurses and their struggle
for equality in the profession. We invite you to learn their story and
to visit some web sites that pay tribute to their hard work and courage.
For more information on nursing history, you may want to visit the American
Association for the History of Nursing or Dianne Brownson's nursing history links.
Mamie O. Hale
MaryEliza Mahoney
Jessie Sleet Scales
Mary Seacole
Mabel Keaton Staupers
Susie King Taylor
Sojourner Truth
Harriet Tubman
"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. "Blacks in nursing: an update." American Nurse.
22(2):6, 1990.
Carnegie ME. The path we tread : blacks in nursing worldwide, 1854-1994.3rd
ed. New York: National League for Nursing Press, 1995.
Davis AT. Early Black American leaders in nursing: architects for
integration and equality. (National League for Nursing
Series) Sudbury, MA: Jones & Bartlett Pub, 1999.
Elmore JA. "Black nurses: their service and their struggle." American
Journal of Nursing. 76(3):435-7, 1976.
George VD, Bradford DM, and Battle A. "Yesterday, today, &
tomorrow: transitioning through time with the Cleveland Council of Black
Nurses." Nursing & Health Care Perspectives,
21(5):219-27, 2000.
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.
House K. "Nurses of color -- a legacy of healing." Nursing
Spectrum (Greater Chicago/NE Illinois & NW Indiana Edition).
10(24):10, 1997 & Washington, Dc/Baltimore Metro Edition).
7(17):12-4, 1997.
Inman K. "Care in a cold climate." Nursing Times. 94(16):18-9,
1998.
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. "Despite all odds: a three-part history of the professionalization
of Black nurses through two professional nursing organizations, 1908-1955."
Journal of National Black Nurses Association. 7(2):10-20, 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.
Mosley MOP. "Satisfied to carry the bag: three black community health
nurses' contributions to health care reform, 1900-1937." Nursing
History Review. 4:65-82, 1996.
"The Negro Nurse." Opportunity. 15(11):325, 1937.
Pollitt P and Reese CN. "The North Carolina Association of Colored
Graduate Nurses: a proud heritage." ABNF Journal. 8(2):32-4,
1997.
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." Opportunity. 20(11):pp.332-333,352,
1942.
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.
Tucker-Allen S. "The founding of the Association of Black Nursing
Faculty: my memories of the first five years." ABNF Journal.
8(4):73-80, 1997.
Washington BT. "Looking through the years: 1910. Training colored
nurses at Tuskegee..." American Journal of Nursing, December
1910, 11:3 pp. 167-171 reprinted by permission. Creative Nursing:
a Journal of Values, Issues, Experience & Collaboration. 3(1):16,
1997.
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.
More about Mamie O. Hale
Mamie Odessa Hale (1911–1968?) (The Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture)
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 January
1929)." 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
Eyes on the Prize (MinorityNurse.com)
Mary Eliza
Mahoney, 1845-1926 (American Nurses Association Hall of Fame Inductees)
Mary Eliza Mahoney,
RN: First Black Nurse,1845-1926 (Bridgewater State College Hall
of Black Achievement)
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
Seacole (1805-1881) (BBC)
Mary Seacole, 1805-1881 (Thames Valley University)
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."
N & HC 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
Mabel Keaton
Staupers, 1890-1989 (American Nurses Association Hall of Fame
Inductees)
Susie
King Taylor
Fleming, John E. "Susie King Taylor." In: Logan, Rayford W. and
Michael R. Winston, eds. Dictionary of American Negro biography.
New York: Norton, 1982, pp.581-582.
More about Susie King Taylor
Susie
King Taylor, by Alberto, fourth grade (Children's Encyclopedia
of Women)
Sojourner
Truth
Davis AT. "Sojourner Truth and Harriet Tubman: sources of inspiration."
ABNF Newsletter. 9(1):1-2, 1995.
More about Sojourner Truth
Ain't
I A Woman? by Sojourner Truth
Honoring
Sojourner Truth
Sojourner
Truth, by Alberto, Third Grade (Children's Encyclopedia of Women)
The
Narrative of Sojourner Truth
The
Sojourner Truth Page
Harriet
Tubman
Bradford, Sarah Elizabeth Hopkins. Harriet Tubman: The Moses of
Her People. Seacaucus, NJ: Citadel Press, 1974. (Reprint of the
1886 edition of Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman.)
Conrad, Earl. Harriet Tubman. New York: Eriksson, 1969.
Davis AT. "Sojourner Truth and Harriet Tubman: sources of inspiration."
ABNF Newsletter. 9(1):1-2, 1995.
More about Harriet Tubman
Harriet
Tubman, by Jeanine, third grade (Children's Encyclopedia of Women)
Harriet
Tubman, by Briana, third grade (Children's Encyclopedia of Women)
Harriet
Tubman, by Anthony, fourth grade (Children's Encyclopedia of Women)
Harriet
Tubman, by Danny, fourth grade (Children's Encyclopedia of Women)
Harriet Tubman
(The National Library of Canada)
Harriet
Tubman (Spectrum Biographies)
The Harriet Tubman Historical
Society
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