#NACGN

[usnatarchives]

A Pioneering Nurse - Mary Eliza Mahoney

Mary Eliza Mahoney was a pioneering nurse and the first African American woman to earn a nursing license in the United States. Born on May 7, 1845, in Dorchester, Massachusetts, Mahoney broke through racial and gender barriers to become a trailblazer in the nursing profession.

Mahoney grew up in a time when nursing was considered a low-status profession, and women of color were largely excluded from formal education. In 1879, she graduated from the New England Hospital for Women and Children Training School for Nurses, becoming the first African American woman to earn a nursing license.

In 1908, the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses (NACGN) was founded to support and advocate for black nurses across the country.

[suffragettecity100]

#WCW Mary Eliza Mahoney

#WCW

Mary Eliza Mahoney, 1845-1926 The daughter of former slaves who moved to Boston, she attended one of the first integrated schools in the country.  Mahoney had always wanted to be a nurse since her teenage years. She worked as a janitor, washerwoman, cook, and nurse’s aide at the New England Hospital for Women and Children until she was finally accepted into the nursing program in 1878 at 33 years old. The formal nursing training, one of the first in the nation, was a 16-month intensive program. Of the 42 women who started, only 4 completed it, including Mary Mahoney.  This made her the first African-American registered nurse in the country. Mahoney choose to work as a private nurse for wealthier families because of the discrimination she faced at public hospitals. Facing more discrimination from nursing organizations, she co-founded the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses (NACGN) in 1908. She later became director of director of the Howard Orphanage Asylum for African-American children.  Ever the pioneer for equality, she is among the first women who registered to vote in Boston after passage of the 19th Amendment.

https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/mary-mahoney

[scientificphilosopher]

Mary Eliza Mahoney

From the archives of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture:

Mary Eliza Mahoney, born on this day in 1845, is considered the first professionally trained African American nurse in the U.S. She became a registered nurse after graduating from the New England Hospital for Women and Children’s nursing school in 1879.

Mahoney spent much of her 40-year career working in private homes, likely due to the unwillingness of hospitals to hire black nurses. She was one of the first African Americans to join the American Nursing Association (ANA) and she also supported the creation of the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses (NACGN) as an alternative to the ANA, since many state and local chapters excluded African Americans.

📷: Courtesy of Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

[kemetic-dreams]

Mary Eliza Mahoney (May 7, 1845 – January 4, 1926) was the first African American to study and work as a professionally trained nurse in the United States. In 1879, Mahoney was the first African American to graduate from an American school of nursing.

In 1908, Martha Minerva Franklin and Adah B. Thoms, two colleagues of Mahoney, met in New York City and decided to start the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses (NACGN). Mahoney worked tirelessly with these women as a co-contributor to the association by improving the access to educational and nursing practices.This organization attempted to uplift the standards and everyday lives of African-American registered nurses.[2] The NACGN had a significant influence on eliminating racial discrimination in the registered nursing profession. An increase in the acceptance of black women into notable medical platforms and the integration of the NACGN with the American Nurses Association prompted the dissolution of the organization in 1951.

Mahoney received many honors and awards for her pioneering work. She was inducted into the American Nurses Association Hall of Fame in 1976 and into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1993.

[famous-aces]

Mary Eliza Mahoney

Who: Mary Eliza Mahoney

What: Nurse and Activist

Where: American, active in America

When: May 5, 1845 - January 4, 1926

(Image Description: a bust photo of Mahoney from circa 1880s. She is a black woman with a young looking face and a serious expression. She has an oval shaped face, low eyebrows, and skin of a medium dark complexion. Her black hair is pinned up under a white bonnet. She is wearing a white shirt/dress with a dark colored scarf. End ID)

She was the first African-American to graduate nursing school and the first Black licensed nurse.  In 1908 she co-founded the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses (now the NACGN part of the American Nurses Association).  She was an activist for both WOC and women's suffrage.

She worked to improve the conditions, standards, and working lives for nurses. She got more WOC into the nursing field and sought to help them achieve the success especially in the face of racist white clientele.

Mahoney was extremely gifted and was one or only four graduates of her 1879 nursing school class.  As a nurse Mahoney became acclaimed despite her race putting her at a disadvantage. She had a reputation for being calm, patient, and caring, possessing an excellent bedside manner.  Most of her clients were wealthy and white. She was employed briefly at the head of Howard Orphan Asylum in New York which took in orphaned and elderly people of color.

She became a suffragette and an early civil rights activist later in life. Mahoney was one of the first women in Boston to register to vote.

Today many honors bear her name, like the Mary Mahoney Award bestowed by American Nurses Association, in Newark, NJ there is a Mary Mahoney Memorial Health Center and Boston, MA has The Mary Eliza Mahoney Dialysis Center.  She has been in the American Nurses Association Hall of Fame since 1976 and the National Women's Hall of Fame since 1993.

Probable Orientation: Aroace or grayro ace

I do these bios in batches of seven and I struggled a bit with two people I put in this one.  Ultimately I am still debating one of them, but I decided to go with Mahoney.

My process in finding historical figures is so unscientific it is embarrassing, I pick names at random and scroll through their biography and if I see the words "never married" and/or "had no children" or some other hint they go on the list of Potential Apsecs (listed as "[Name, Occupation]???" The more unsure I am the more question marks they get.) Then when the name comes up on my list I start digging in earnest. I go through as many (reputable) sites I can find and as many papers I can read for free, I go looking for things that might swing my opinion one way or another.

Ultimately sexual orientation is not a science. There is no equation I can punch in and get a clean answer, but I look for traits that a lot of asexual or potentially asexual figures share. The most obvious of them is that the person in question lived alone, never married, never had kids (especially in a pre-20th century era), or otherwise had a life that stands out as downright Queer. I love words like Bachelor and Spinster. But not everyone is Tesla or Thoreau, straight up saying "I don't want to have sex." Often it takes inference.

Mahoney is neither widely accepted as ace nor did she leave much behind about her personal life to tell us one way or another. She left a big ol' question mark and when most historians see that question mark they say "cishet.".  But there is evidence to the contrary and now that I have rambled on longer than a recipe blog I am going to share it with you.

Mahoney never married and never had children. She was (supposedly) very briefly engaged to a doctor. I say supposedly because I can only find one source mentioning the engagement and it is not a primary source. And it has neither what year it happened or even the man's name. According to this source when he "jilted" her Mahoney was left emotionally broken and bitter and never sought out romance for the rest of her life because he crushed her.

But I can find no evidence she was ever particularly open about her life or ever gave voice to this bitterness. I can't find Mahoney mentioning her fiance or his breaking her heart. And I find it weird that if Mahoney was emotionally destroyed by this man that no one would know his name. So, maybe she was engaged briefly, maybe she wasn't.  Maybe he broke it off, maybe she did. But really that doesn't matter, what matters is, a lot of people go through very similar experiences and rarely do they become complete spinsters.

It doesn't seem that she was ever really interested in finding love again. She has no documented relationships I can find aside from that one. It seems more indicative of disinterest.

As I said Mahoney never had children, but she worked with children all her adult life. As a private nurse she tended to work with mothers and their babies.  She was the director of an orphan asylum. It was not a disinterest in children, but maybe disinterest in making her own.

(Image description: a faded black and white photo from the first convention of the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses, 1909, at which Mahoney spoke. It shows a group of about 40 Black women posed in rows and well dressed in conservative dresses/skirts and all with either short hair or hair pinned up. They are in front of a stone building. At the bottom of the photo written in cursive it says "The First Convention of The National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses". End ID)

[lionel3350]

Today we remember Mary Eliza Mahoney, the first African American to study and work as a professionally trained nurse in the United States. In 1908, she co-founded the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses with Adah B. Thoms. The NACGN merged with the American Nurses Association (ANA) in 1951 and the Mary Mahoney Award was created in commemoration of her. The award is given to this day by the ANA for significant contributions in advancing equal opportunities in nursing for members of minority groups. She died January 4, 1926 at the age of age 80. Thank you for all that you did and the path that you paved. Ann Tripp Tune In http://bit.ly/WBLSLive1 https://www.instagram.com/p/CLBMpJGHZc0/?igshid=1llqm1eajr61x

[wiitchb-tch]

Day 3! America's first black professional nurse, Mary Eliza Mahoney is known not only for her outstanding personal career, but also for her exemplary contributions to local and national professional organizations. Mahoney inspired both nurses and patients with her calm, quiet efficiency and untiring compassion. She graduated from the New England Hospital for Women and Children Training School for Nurses in 1879. She was one of only three persons in her class to complete the rigorous 16 month program. In 1909, Mahoney gave the welcome address at the first conference of the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses (NACGN). In recognition of her outstanding example to nurses of all races, NACGN established the Mary Mahoney Award in 1936.

[champlabumd]

Black History Month: Mabel Keaton Staupers

In celebration of Black History Month, today we highlight Mabel Keaton Staupers, an advocate and leader of African American nurses. Ms. Staupers graduated with honors from the Freedmen’s Hospital School of Nursing (now Howard University College of Nursing) in 1917. Ms. Staupers co-founded the Booker T. Washington Sanitarium and served as director of nursing. The Sanitarium was the first hospital in Harlem established to treat tuberculosis in Black Americans. In 1922, Staupers conducted a study of the health-care needs in Harlem which led to the founding of the Harlem Committee of the New York Tuberculosis and Health Association. Staupers was the organization’s first executive secretary. Later, in 1934 she was named executive secretary of the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses (NACGN). NACGN played an integral role in ensuring black nurses gained unrestricted membership in state and national nursing organizations. Ms. Staupers is most known for her work desegregating the Armed Forces Nurse Corps during World War II.. alongside First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. By January 1945, black nurses were fully accepted into the Army & Navy. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) awarded Staupers with the Spingarn Medal for her career achievements. You can learn more about nurse Staupers in her autobiography, No Time for Prejudice: A Story of the Integration of Negroes in Nursing in the United States.

Reference: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mabel-Keaton-Staupers

[lafotographee]

Feb 13th of Black History Month. #black365 Mrs. Agnes (my friend), thank you for coming through the studio tonight to help spread awareness about today's Icon. It only seems fit for you to do this picture, since you are a nurse and the President of Black Nurses Rock here in Mobile. This photo was inspired by Mary Eliza Mahoney #maryelizamohnoney Follow me: Facebook: @lafotographee Instagram: @lafotographee Twitter: L.A. Fotographee #photographer #lifeofaphotographer #lafotographee #picoftheday #photography #photo #love #lovephotography #blacklove #family #photographylover #blackhistory #mobile #alabama #blackphotographers #blackfamily #bllakluve #blackmagic #blacklovepage Mary Mahoney made history when she became the first black woman to complete nurse's training in 1879. Subsequently, she became one of the first black members of the Nurses Associated Alumnae of the United States and Canada (later renamed the American Nurses Association), as well as a member of the newly founded National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses. In addition to her pioneering efforts in nursing, Mahoney has been credited as one of the first women to register to vote in Boston following the ratification of the 19th Amendment, granting women's suffrage, on August 26, 1920. y 1911, Ms. Mahoney was the head of the Howard Orphan Asylum in New York, where she served for a year. Given her determination and her drive for equal rights, it isn’t surprising to find out that she was a strong supporter of women’s suffrage. She was one of the first women in Boston to register to vote – at the age of 76. Born in 1845, by 1923 Mary Mahoney learned she was suffering from breast cancer. She succumbed in 1926 and is buried in Everett, Massachusetts. An award in her honor was established in 1936 by the NACGN and continued after the merger with the ANA. In 1976, Mary Mahoney, RN inducted into the ANA Hall of Fame. Mary Mahoney paved the way for women of color in the nursing profession, and in d https://www.instagram.com/p/B81_XBxpKKe/?igshid=tyvn1oubkq4h

[kanalmalatya]

Abdullah Gül'ün acı günü

Abdullah Gül���ün acı günü

Abdullah Gül’ün acı günü Abdullah Gül’ün acı günü Rahatsızlığı nedeniyle bir süredir tedavi gören 91 yaşındaki Gül, akşam saatlerinde Acıbadem Kayseri Hastanesinde yaşamını yitirdi. Abdullah Gül, cuma günü Kayseri’ye gelerek babasını ziyaret etmişti.. Abdullah Gül’ün acı günü Rahatsızlığı nedeniyle bir süredir tedavi gören 91 yaşındaki Gül, akşam saatlerinde Acıbadem Kayseri Hastanesinde yaşamını…

[uppatree]

Her Story: Mary E. Mahoney

Her Story: Mary E. Mahoney

First professionally trained Nurse in the United States

Mary Eliza Mahoney (1845 -1926) was the first professionally trained African American nurse in the United States. She graduated in 1879 from the New England Hospital for Women and Children in Boston, Massachusetts.  

In 1908 Mahoney co-founded the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses (NACGN) with a fellow nurse, Adah Thoms.…

[misterjdakar]

Adah Belle Samuels Thoms (Jan. 12, 1870 - Feb. 21, 1943) was a prominent black nurse.

After studying speech and elocution at Cooper Union in the 1890s, Thoms enrolled in the Women’s Infirmary and School of Therapeutic Massage, the only black woman in the 1900 graduating class of thirty.

In 1905, she became acting director and supervising surgical nurse of the Lincoln Hospital and Home. Despite serving in this role for seventeen years, racist policies of the time prevented her from becoming director.

Thoms served as president of the Lincoln Hospital Alumnae Association for ten years. In 1908, she became the first treasurer of the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses (NACGN). She co-founded the organization with Mary Eliza Mahoney, the first black person to study and work as a professionally trained nurse in the United States.

Thoms led the NACGN from 1916 until 1923. She was the first honoree of the Mary Mahoney Award, and among the first inducted into the American Nurses Association Hall of Fame.

[themortallivinggod]

Adah Belle Samuels Thoms (January 12, 1870 – February 21, 1943) was an African American nurse who cofounded the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses, was acting director of the Lincoln School for Nurses (New York), and fought for African Americans to serve as army nurses during World War I. She was among the first nurses inducted into the American Nurses Association Hall of Fame when it was established in 1976. Thoms was born Adah Belle Samuels in Richmond, Virginia, to Harry and Melvina Samuels. As a young woman, she married briefly, and kept the surname Thoms. She taught in Virginia, and then in the 1890s, she went to New York, to study elocution and speech at Cooper Union. She then studied nursing at the Women's Infirmary and School of Therapeutic Massage, graduating in 1900 as the only black woman in a class of thirty. Thoms became involved in international efforts to advance the nursing profession, attending the International Council of Nurses in 1912. In the first part of the 20th century, Thoms worked with Martha Minerva Franklin and Mary Mahoney to organize the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses. The organizing meeting was held at Lincoln Home and Hospital, and hosted by Thoms, in 1907. The organization, founded in 1908 by a group of 52 black nurses, aimed to secure the full integration of black women nurses into the nursing profession. Focused on the American Nurses' Association, nursing education programs, employment opportunities, and equal pay, the organization was ultimately dissolved by president Mabel Keaton Staupers in 1950, after successfully integrating the US Armed Forces (WWII) and the American Nurses' Association (1948). Thoms served as president of the NACGN from 1916–1923, and played a critical role in lobbying for the rights of African American women to serve in the United States military during World War I. During World War I, Thoms campaigned the American Red Cross to permit black nurses to enroll. Introduced to President Warren G. Harding and First Lady Florence Kling Harding, she presented them with a basket of roses, and told them that 2000 black nurses were ready to serve their country. These efforts ultimately led to the creation of the United States Army Nurse Corps. In 1923, she remarried, to Henry Smith, who died within the year. Adah Belle Samuels Thoms died in New York City, February 21, 1943.

[dreabeingdrea]

#BostonBlackHistory: Mary Eliza Mahoney (May 7, 1845 – January 4, 1926) was the first African American to study and work as a professionally trained nurse in the United States, graduating in 1879. Mahoney was one of the first African Americans to graduate from a nursing school. In 1908, Mahoney co-founded the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses (NACGN) with Adah B. Thoms. This organization attempted to uplift the standards and everyday lives of African-American registered nurses.

[slimblac]

from @blackwomenmatters - #BWM2015 "#BlackHistory #blackpeople #BlackCommunity" @blackwomenmatters # MARYELIZABETHMAHONEY was the first black #nurse to practice professionally(graduate from a nursing school in the north). Back then, the nursing schools only allowed one Jew and one black, no men at the time, to pursue education in nursing. She also cofounder the #NACGN which is an acronym for the negro association of colored graduate nurses. This org lead to the founding of the ANA which is the professional org we use today. She was a force that slowly broke down barriers of discrimination. Even though the numbers are still low in comparison to Caucasian professional nurses. #maryelizabethmahoney gives me hope 👏🙌 #knowledge is #power @BlackWomenMatters""

[endofdayz]

Mary Eliza Mahoney (May 7, 1845 – January 4, 1926) was the first African American to study and work as a professionally trained nurse in the United States, graduating in 1879.

In 1908, she co-founded the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses (NACGN) with Adah B. Thoms. The NACGN eventually merged with the American Nurses Association (ANA) in 1951. She is commemorated by the biennial Mary Mahoney Award of the ANA for significant contributions in advancing equal opportunities in nursing for members of minority groups.

SALUTE