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Phyllis M. Daley became the first African American Navy Nurse.

Air Force nurse Second Lieutenant Ethel S. Underwood, Mitchel Air Force Base, New York, 1953.

The first Black Army nurse, Susie King Taylor served for the Union during the Civil War, tending to an all-Black Army regiment. Like many African American nurses during the war, Taylor was never compensated for her work. She worked as a laundress and…

Four Lakota Sioux Catholic Sisters of the Congregation of American Sisters from Fort Pierre, South Dakota, served as contract nurses with the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War in 1898. Mother Bridget (Anna Pleets), Mother Joseph (Josephine…

Charlotte (Anderson) Monture, of the Six Nations Grand River Reserve in Canada, served as one of the few American Indian Army nurses during World War I. Wanting to seek new opportunities, Monture attended the New Rochelle School of Nursing in New…