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African American nurses

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Rita Laverne Fitch papers

 Collection
Identifier: 819
Content Description This collection consists of Ms. Fitch’s family genealogy as well as personal materials. These items chronicle the Fitch’s family life in Cleveland, Ohio. The genealogical information includes biographies written by Fitch for her parents and family group records for relatives containing biographical information such as birth and death dates, names of spouses, and medical histories. These materials also include photocopies of photographs of family members. There is also an...
Dates: 1936-1998

Joseph A. Labat collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2218
Content Description This collection includes materials collected by Dr. Joseph A. Labat of New Orleans, Louisiana on the topic of African American physicians and nurses in Louisiana and Mississippi, as well as some family material. Medical-related materials include photographic prints of Dr. Rivers Fredrick and Dr. Joseph M. Epps Sr., as well as Flint-Goodridge Hospital in New Orleans; a news clipping on the death of Eola Lyons Baker, former superintendent of nurses and director of the Nurse Training School at...
Dates: Other: 1926-1992

Mary Lee Mills collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2040
Content Description

This collection includes various acceptance remarks by Mary Lee Mills for awards conferred upon her by multiple professional nursing organizations, her cirriculum vita, and other documents pertaining to her career as a nursing consultant. These materials attest to her contributions to desegregating the nursing profession and her positive dedication to human needs of people everywhere.

Dates: Other: 1962-1974

Mabel Keaton Staupers papers

 Collection
Identifier: 352
Scope and Contents This collection pertains to the nursing career of Mabel Keaton Staupers. It includes correspondence, clippings, speeches, programs, invitations, and photographs. Correspondence of note includes several telegrams sent when she was named as a recipient of the Spingarn Medal in 1951, including notes of congratulations from Grace Nail Johnson and Lillian Smith. Also included are programs of events for which Staupers was commencement speaker, conference discussant, or honoree. Event programs of...
Dates: Created: 1930-1977; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1973

Dorothy E. Yepez papers

 Collection
Identifier: 399
Content Description The papers primarily document the career of Dorothy E. Yepez, and significantly highlight the contributions of an African American businesswoman and art gallery owner in the United States. The collection is extremely rich on the subjects of art, Black history, education and the business documentation of Yepez’s career, with collected files from her art gallery and social activities. Yepez’s papers contain business and some personal correspondence; biographical sketches of Yepez and artists...
Dates: Other: circa 1864-1990, undated