Martha Minerva Franklin

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Martha Minerva Franklin (born October 29, 1870 in New Milford, Connecticut , † September 26, 1968 in New Haven, Connecticut ) was an African-American nurse and both founding member and the first president of the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses (NACGN) .

Martha Minerva Franklin was born on October 29, 1870 to Mary E. Gauson and the former Union soldier Henry J. Franklin in New Milford, Connecticut. Franklin attended Woman's Hospital Training School for Nurses of Philadelphia and was the only black woman in her class to graduate in December 1897. After graduating, she worked as a private nurse in Meridien before moving to New Haven, where she began to get involved in the black civil rights movement.

Between 1906 and 1908, Franklin examined the forms and levels of disadvantage and discrimination faced by black caregivers and realized that the black sisters needed their own organization to combat this. Together with Adah Belle Thoms , she organized the first meeting of black nurses in New York City in 1908 and founded the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses with the 52 participants. Franklin became the first female president of the NACGN. Franklin moved to New York in 1920 and completed a postgraduate course at Lincoln Hospital. At 58, she began a two-year course at Columbia University 's Teachers' College to qualify as a public health nurse . After living and working in New York for many years, she eventually moved to New Haven to live with her sister. Franklin died there on September 26, 1968. Posthumously, she was inducted into the American Nurses Association Hall of Fame in 1976 , followed by induction into the Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame in 2009 .

literature

  • Mary Elizabeth Carnegie: The Path We Tread: Blacks in Nursing 1854-1984 Jones & Bartlett Learning, 1999. ISBN 978-0763712471
  • Althea T. Davis, Paul K Davis: Early Black American Leaders in Nursing: Architects for Integration and Equality Jones and Bartlett Publisher, 1999. ISBN 978-0763710095

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sandra B. Lewenson: Taking Charge: Nursing, Suffrage, and Feminism in America, 1873-1920 Routledge, 2016 ISBN 978-1138983526 p. 64 (English)
  2. ↑ Nursing World: Hall of Fame Inductee 1976-1982 (English) accessed on June 14, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Franklin, Martha Minerva
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American nurse and first president of the NACGN
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH New Milford (Connecticut)
DATE OF DEATH 26th September 1968
Place of death New Haven (Connecticut)