Della H. Raney

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Captain Della H. Raney, Army Nurse Corps.

Della Hayden Raney also Maw Raney (born January 10, 1912 in Suffolk (Virginia) , † November 23, 1987 ) was an American Registered Nurse . Raney was the first African American woman to be admitted to the United States Army Nurse Corps . She later became the first African American woman to be promoted to captain and major in the Army. Raney retired in 1978.

biography

Della H. Raney was born on 10th 1912 in Suffolk , Virginia, the fourth of twelve children of George H. and Willie V. Raney. She graduated from the Lincoln Hospital School of Nursing in Durham, North Carolina in 1937 . Raney first worked as a senior nurse in the operating room at Lincoln Hospital and then moved to KB Reynolds Hospital in Winston-Salem . . Raney wanted to volunteer for service in the armed forces, but was initially turned down because of her skin color. She then became a member of the American Red Cross Nursing Service in order to be admitted to the service via this detour. In April 1941, her persistence paid off, and Raney was inducted into the Army Nurse Corps as the first African American woman.

Raney, a second lieutenant , was first assigned to Fort Bragg as a senior nurse. The following year, Raney was transferred to the hospital at Tuskegee Army Air Field . Raney worked there as a senior sister and was promoted to captain in 1944. In the same year she was transferred to Fort Huachuca . At the time, Raney was the only black woman to have reached this rank in the Army Air Forces . In 1946 she was briefly on leave from Camp Beale , where she was employed as the head of the nursing service. That same year, Raney was promoted to major, again as the first African American in the US Army. In the 1950s, she was posted at Percy Jones Army Medical Hospital . Raney served in the Army until she retired in 1978.

Raney was honored for her service by the Tuskegee Airmen in 1978 , and her comrades called her Maw Raney . Raney died on November 23, 1987. The Tuskegee Airmen and the National Black Nurses Association established a grant on their behalf in 2012.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c North Carolina Nursing History (ASU): Della Hayden Raney Jackson African American trailblazer WWII nurse (English) accessed July 19, 2020
  2. ^ African Americans in the US Army: Major Della H. Raney (English) accessed on July 19, 2020
  3. ↑ a b c d National Negro Health News: Negro Nurses Volume 12, Issue 2, p. 7, April 1944 (English)
  4. ↑ a b c Robert J. Kodosky: Tuskegee in Philadelphia: Rising to the Challenge The History Press, 2020 ISBN 978-1-4671-4467-4 (English) p. 126
  5. ↑ a b c d e Army Women's Foundation: Della Hayden Raney (Jackson) (English) accessed on July 19, 2020
  6. ↑ The Sacramento Bee: Only Negress With Rank of Major Visits Sacramento p. 2, Newspapers.com (English), accessed on July 19, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Raney, Della H.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Raney, Della Hayden (full name); Raney, Maw
BRIEF DESCRIPTION african american nurse
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Suffolk (Virginia)
DATE OF DEATH November 23, 1987