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Lt. Florie E. Gant...tends a patient at a prisoner-of war hospital somewhere in England.

Navy nurse Joan Bynum became the first African American woman promoted to captain.

Capt. Della H. Raney, Army Nurse Corps, who now heads the nursing staff at the station hospital at Camp Beale, CA - NARA. She became the first African American accepted into the Army Nurse Corps.

Some of the first black nurses to serve in the US Army, standing outside their quarters at Camp Sherman, Chillocothe, OH

During World War I, fourteen African American women served as yeomen (F) in the U.S. Navy as administrative and clerical workers.

Uniform worn by Charity Adams Earley, the first African American officer in the Women's Army Auxillary Corps (WAAC), later Women's Army Corps (WAC) and Commander of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, the first battalion of African…

Mary McLeod Bethune Black Heritage, US Postage Stamp, 22c,1 985

Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune, educator, civil rights activist, community organizer, public policy advisor, public health advocate and presidential advisor, was instrumental in mobilizing…

US Postage stamp, 13c, honoring Harriet Tubman's contribution to Black Heritage, issued by the US Postal Service.

Lieutenant (junior grade) La’Shonda Holmes became the first African American woman Coast Guard helicopter pilot.

The Coast Guard opened the SPARs (from the Coast Guard motto Semper Paratus, "Always Ready") to African-American women.