Mary Eliza Mahoney was the first African-American to study and work as a professionally trained nurse in the United States. In 1879, Mahoney was the first African American to graduate from an American school of nursing.
Mary Eliza Mahoney
National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses
The National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses was a professional organization for African American nurses founded in 1908.
The first convention of the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses, Boston, 1909