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Nancy Leftenant-Colon, the first nurse to break the U.S. Army color barrier
Each day, as we have learned, brings new information about another first for Black Americans. It is something that may go on ...
Auburn Citizen14d
First Black woman in Army Nurse Corps dies
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 ...
The Associated Press on MSN20d
Nancy Leftenant-Colon, who was the first Black woman in Army Nurse Corps, has died
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 ...
kcra.com19d
Nancy Leftenant-Colon, who was the first Black woman in Army Nurse Corps, has died
The first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after the military was desegrated in the 1940s has died. She was 104. Nancy Leftenant-Colon, who retired as a major and died earlier this ...
The Washington Post15d
Nancy Leftenant-Colon, barrier-breaking military nurse, dies at 104
serving as the first African American in the regular Army Nurse Corps and later caring for the sick and injured as a flight nurse in the Air Force, died Jan. 8 at a nursing home in Amityville ...