Second, the Army Nurse Corps (ANC) was dragging its feet on accepting ... the conventional structures that held women and people of color back. While Black and white Rosies pop-riveted boats ...

Mrs. Leftenant-Colon joined the U.S. Army Nurse Corps in February 1948, several months before President Harry S. Truman signed an executive order desegregating the armed forces. It was the ...

Leftenenat-Colon was the first Black nurse to serve in the reserve or active-duty Army/Air Nurse Corps and the first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after its desegregation following ...