Estelle Massey Osborne
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Estelle Massey Riddle Osborne was an African American nurse and educator. She served in many prominent positions and worked to eliminate racial discrimination in the nursing field.
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Lincoln School for Nurses
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The Lincoln School for Nurses, also known as Lincoln Hospital and Nursing Home School for Nurses and Lincoln Hospital School of Nursing, was the first nursing school for African-American women in New
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…later Homer G. Phillips Hospital), and became a head nurse there after graduating in 1923. In 1926 or 1927 she moved to New York City, to teach at the Lincoln School of Nursing and the Harlem Hospital School of Nursing. She attended summer sessions at Teachers College, Columbia University, and eventually attended as a full-time…
The former school's entrance in July 1970.
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Lincoln Hospital and Nursing Home circa 1915.