Today on The Black Scholars Index...

Today, The Black Scholars Index celebrates Mary Eliza Mahoney. In 1879 Mary Eliza Mahoney graduated from the New England Hospital for Women and Children in Boston, MA. She was the first colored graduate nurse in the United States. For over 40 years she devoted her life to professional nursing. The hospital is now called the Dimock Center and hosts its family center in the Mary Eliza Mahoney house. Read her story!

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