National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses
The National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses (English for. Colored National Association graduate nurses ) was in the United States of America was established in 1908 professional association for African-American nurses .
In the early years of the 20th century, the American Nurses Association (ANA), the professional association of American nurses, was theoretically open to black nurses, but the professional associations in the states were mostly unwilling to accept blacks into their ranks. Without state approval, inclusion in the overall ANA was not possible. As a result, 52 nurses, including Martha Minerva Franklin , Adah Belle Samuels Thoms and Mary Eliza Mahoney, decided to set up their own professional organization for colored nurses. They met in New York City in 1908and founded the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses (NACGN). Franklin was elected its first female president. The association set itself three central goals: to further develop the standards and interests of professional nurses, to combat discrimination within professional nursing, and to develop leadership functions within the ranks of black nurses.
The union struggled u. a. for admitting black nurses to the Red Cross and paving the way for the colored nurses into the United States Army Nurse Corps . One of the early supporters of the NACGN was the National Medical Association , an association of black doctors. They invited the NACGN to hold their meetings with them and published the articles written by nurses in their association magazine.
When the discrimination in the originally white professional associations and nursing schools subsided in the late 1940s and 1950s, the NACGN decided in 1949 that their goals had been achieved and in 1951 they merged with the ANA. This took over the award donated in 1936, the Mary Mahoney Award , a medal that is awarded every two years to care workers from ethnic minorities.
Known members
- Carrie E. Bullock (President of the NACGN 1927-1930, Editor of The National News Bulletin )
- Frances Reed Elliot (first black in the American Red Cross)
- Martha Minerva Franklin (First President of the NACGN)
- Hulda Margaret Lyttle (author School for Negro Nurses )
- Mary Eliza Mahoney (First Black Registered Nurse)
- Mabel Keaton Staupers (holder of the Spingarn Medal )
- Adah Belle Samuels Thoms (American Nurses Association Hall of Fame)
literature
- Althea T. Davis, Paul K. Davis: Early Black American Leaders in Nursing: Architects for Integration and Equality. Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 1999. ISBN 978-0763710095 (English)
- The New York Public Library Archives & Manuscripts: National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses records 1908–1958 (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Althea T. Davis, Paul K. Davis: Early Black American Leaders in Nursing: Architects for Integration and Equality. Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 1999. ISBN 978-0763710095 (English) p. 51 ff.
- ^ Andrist, Nicholas, Wolf: A History of Nursing Ideas Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2006. ISBN 9780763722890 (English)