Flipboard Culture Desk on Nostr: Nancy Leftenant-Colon, the first Black woman to serve in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps ...

Nancy Leftenant-Colon, the first Black woman to serve in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after desegregation, has died at age 104. Here's nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqgrtrdjtd7w96ls77c8amncdzn7syfu3r89mzfwcu7kqw296qewqs6nk2rj (nprofile…k2rj)'s story about her life and career. One of 12 children born to James, the son of a freed slave, and Eunice, neither of whom were educated beyond sixth grade, Leftenant-Colon retired from the U.S. Air Force as a major, then worked as a school nurse at her alma mater, and in 1989 became the first national female president of the Tuskegee Airmen.

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