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The first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after the military was desegregated in the 1940s has died. She was ...

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Well done, Mrs. Leftenant-Colon! The first Black woman to serve in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps following its desegregation after World War II, Nancy Leftenant-Colon, passed away at 104, VPM reported.

After graduating from nursing school in 1941, Leftenant-Colon attempted to join the military but was told Black nurses weren’t allowed. She kept trying, and in January 1945, she was accepted ...

Nancy Leftenant-Colon, the first Black woman to serve in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps when it was desegregated after World War II and the sister of one of the famed Tuskegee Airmen pilots, died Jan. 8 in ...