The first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after the military was desegregated in the 1940s has died. She was ...
In 1948, she became the first Black woman in the regular Army Nurse Corps. She later served in Vietnam with the Air Force.
Colon, the first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after the military was desegregated in the 1940s, has passed ...
the first Black state senator to represent Long Island in the governing body’s 247-year history. In Albany she will represent ...
She was 104, and a native of Goose Creek, South Carolina. Nancy Leftenant-Colon, who retired as a major and died earlier this month at a New York nursing home, was remembered by relatives and ...
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 ...