Mary Eliza Mahoney was the nation's first black proffessional nurse. BHM
Born May 7, 1845, in Boston, Mass., Mahoney was a descendant of free Blacks from North Carolina and the oldest of three children. She attended Phillips School, one of the few integrated schools in Boston, and was a teenager when she began pursuing her dream to become a nurse. At 18, she was employed at the progressive New England Hospital for Women and Children, where she worked as a cook and a domestic servant.
Along with her breakthrough as the first African-American professional nurse in the nation, she broke the barrier as a member of the all-white American Nurses Association. But she was virtually alone as a Black member and when the organization showed no signs of expanding its diversity, she worked as a co-founder to establish the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses.
Women’s suffrage and women’s rights in general were also issues that received her formidable commitment and determination. When the 19th Amendment was passed in 1920, giving women the right to vote, she, at 76, was among one of the first women in Boston to register. This was apparently just the beginning of Miller’s endeavors to honor Mahoney. Later, she was instrumental in her effort to get the monument placed in tribute to her idol. “The stone was designed by another Mahoney recipient, Mable Staupers,” Doona wrote, “whose contributions to professional nursing are also significant.”
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