Celebrating Black Nursing Leaders
Harriet Tubman
“She nursed our soldiers in the hospitals, and knew how, when they were dying by numbers of some malignant disease, with cunning skill to extract from roots and herbs, which grew near the source of the disease, the healing draught, which allayed the fever and restored numbers to health.”
– Sarah H. Bradford in Harriet: The Moses of Her People
https://www.nursing.virginia.edu/news/flashback-harriet-tubman-nurse/
Mary Seacole
Mary Seacole’s reputation after the Crimean War (1853-1856) rivaled Florence Nightingale’s. Unlike Nightingale, Seacole also had the challenge to have her skills put to proper use in spite of her being black. A born healer and a woman of driving energy, she overcame official indifference and prejudice.
Mary Seacole
Ernest Grant
Ernest Grant was the first male president of ANA and a burn specialist. “Dr. Grant is the embodiment of core nursing values as he advocates for all nurses and works to ensure that every voice is heard, every color represented, and that every nurse can have ‘a seat at the table’.”
https://www.nursingworld.org/news/news-releases/2022-news-releases/ana-president-ernest-j.-grant-lands-on-modern-healthcares-50-most-influential-leaders/
Eddie Bernice Johnson
Johnson attended Saint Mary’s College of Notre Dame, where she graduated in 1955 with her nursing certificate.
In 1972 she was the first black woman ever elected to Congress.
And in 1977 President Jimmy Carter appointed her as the regional director for the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, the first African-American woman to hold this position.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Bernice_Johnson
Frankie Manning
For nearly five decades, Frankie T. Manning, MSN, RN, has dedicated herself to public service through a nursing career spent in a number of roles within the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs, on professional boards, as a faculty member for several academic nursing programs, and through her service in the U.S. Army.
https://nursemanifest.com/
