"Army Nurse Corps"
Item
- Title
- "Army Nurse Corps"
- Description
- Full page photo and article in the black newspaper, The Oklahoma Eagle, highlighting the commitment of black nurses as commissioned officers of the United States Army Nurse Corps. Locations of duty mentioned in the article include the two hospitals serving black military service members in Texas, one of which was at Camp Howze.
- Date
- 1944-07-22
- Source
-
Hughes, Horace S. “Army Nurse Corps.” The Oklahoma Eagle, July
22, 1944, https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1804147/.
The Gateway to Oklahoma History, crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.
- Subject
- Segregation
- racism
- nurse
- U.S. Army Nurse Corps
- army nurse corps
- army nurse
- negro nurse
- black nurse
- colored nurse
- African American nurse
- black service member
- colored service member
- negro service member
- African American service member
- World War II
- WWII
- World War 2
- black newspaper
- The Oklahoma Eagle
- Camp Howze
- hospital
- military hospital
- black female officer
- greatest generation
