Estelle Massey Osborne

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Estelle Massey Osborne Riddle (* 3. May 1901 in Palestine (Texas) ; † 12. December 1981 in Oakland ( California )) was an African American nurse and university lecturer . She worked in various organizations to end racial discrimination within professional nursing and has received numerous awards for this.

Career

Estelle Massey Riddle Osborne (nee Massey) was born on May 3, 1901 in Palestine, Texas, the eighth of eleven children of Hall and Bettye Estelle Massey. Her parents, though uneducated, firmly believe in the power of education and all of her older daughters became teachers. Osborne attended the African American Prairie View State Normal and Industrial College in Prarie View , Texas. She received a diploma as a teacher and started teaching in a small rural school. After witnessing a shooting at school, she gave up teaching and moved to live with her brother, a dentist in St. Louis . There Osborn attended the first nursing class offered at St. Louis City Hospital # 2 . After graduating in 1923, she got a job as head nurse in the same hospital that only treated black patients.

Osborn moved to Kansas City, Missouri , in 1926 or 1927 and taught care and hygiene at the Lincoln School of Nursing . During summer breaks she took courses at the Teachers College of Columbia University . She finally applied for a scholarship from the Rosenwald Fund to study full-time. Osborne received her bachelor's degree in 1930, and in 1931 she became the first African-American woman to receive a master's degree in nursing education . She married Dr. Bedford N. Riddle 1932, but they divorced.

Osborne became the head of formation at Freedmen's Hospital in Washington, DC , again as the first colored woman , and soon after was elected president of the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses (NACGN). She performed this task from 1934 to 1939. In 1941 Osborne was appointed to the National Nursing Council for War Service , the first black woman to receive a national advisory post. In anticipation of World War II , Osborne was tasked with investigating how black nurses could be integrated into the armed forces. There were virtually no black nurses in the Army or Navy at the time, so Osborne put pressure on those responsible to end the policy of racial discrimination in nursing. She gathered other care organizations behind her to convince the educational institutions to allow colored female nursing students. By the end of the war, 20 nursing schools had begun admitting black female students, and the exclusion of black nurses had ended in both the Army and Navy.

In 1945 Osborne became the first colored instructor at New York University 's Department of Nursing Education. She married Herman Osborne in 1947, and the second marriage remained childless. The University of Maryland appointed Osborne an associate professor in 1954 . She died on December 12, 1981 in Oakland, California.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Susan Ware: Notable American Women Harvard University Press, 2004, Volume 5, pp. 491–493 ISBN 9780674014886 (English)
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g New York Public Library : Estelle Massey Osborne papers (English)
  3. ↑ Jessie Carney Smith: Black Firsts: 4,000 Ground-Breaking and Pioneering Historical Events Visible Ink Press, 2012 ISBN 9781578594245 Chap. College Faculty, p. 182 (English)
  4. ↑ a b c d e f Harriet R. Feldman, G. Alexander Rumay: Nursing Leadership: A Concise Encyclopedia Springer Publishing, 2011 ISBN 9780826121769 p. 397 chap. Leadership (English)
  5. ↑ a b c Althea T. Davis: Early Black American Leaders in Nursing Jones & Bartlett, 1999, ISBN 9780763710095 p. 148 (English)
  6. ^ A b Nursing World: Estelle Massey Osborne (1901–1981) 1984 Inductee, American Nurses Association (English), accessed June 16, 2020
  7. ^ New York University: NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing to Host 26th Annual Estelle Osborne Celebration, February 17, 2017 (English), accessed June 16, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Osborne, Estelle Massey
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Osborne, Estelle Massey Riddle
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American nurse and President of the NACGN
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Palestine (Texas)
DATE OF DEATH December 12, 1981
Place of death Oakland