Each day, as we have learned, brings new information about another first for Black Americans. It is something that may go on ...

During her first year at Lincoln, she came across a magazine photo of an Army nurse. “She was striking, standing proud in her starched white uniform, black cape flowing behind her,” Maj.

Mrs. Leftenant-Colon joined the U.S. Army Nurse Corps in February 1948 ... allowed to eat in whites-only restaurants, even in her uniform. When she was traveling through one Southern city ...

put that uniform on and did what she had to do,” Gilda Leftenant said. “She loved taking care of people.” Leftenant-Colon became the first Black woman to be admitted to the Army Nurse Corps ...

Hari Mann was arrested last summer after using an imitation firearm to shoot blank rounds and threatening a member of the ...

Lorra Hernon, a pediatric nurse at OBCC and newly appointed first ... both in and out of uniform.

CHICAGO - As a kid growing up in Chicago’s Chatham neighborhood on the south side, Lt. Col. Brandon Singleton, Finance Officer, 85th U.S. Army Reserve ...

The army nurse died at sea during an evacuation trip ... of remembering the Australians who “have put on Australia’s uniform and those that have made the supreme sacrifice”.

A civilian described as a licensed nurse and a U.S. Army soldier worked nearby. The scene was standard bureaucratic fare until a nearby colleague left her workstation, leaving her Common Access ...

They could go to war and become nurses. But that was still putting them ... whether making money motivated Cashier to join the Union Army. Born in Ireland as Jennie Hodgers, Cashier, “dressed ...