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 ...

Leftenant-Colon was granted reserve status in the Army Nurse Corps, three months before the ... “It didn’t seem to matter to ...

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 ...

Nancy Leftenant-Colon, the first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after the military was desegregated in the 1940s, died Jan. 8. Here, an American flag is presented to Leftenant-Colon ...

Nancy Leftenant-Colon, the first Black woman to serve in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps when it was desegregated after World War II and the sister of one of the famed Tuskegee Airmen pilots ...