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
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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Rita Laverne Fitch papers
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
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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Joseph A. Labat collection
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
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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Mary Lee Mills collection
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
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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Mabel Keaton Staupers papers
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
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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Dorothy E. Yepez papers