(That prohibition lasted until 1955.) Second, the Army Nurse Corps (ANC) was dragging its feet on accepting Black women. Technically, Black women could join the ANC at the end of World War I ...

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 ...

The first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after the military was desegregated in the 1940s has died. She was 104, and a native of Goose Creek, South Carolina. Nancy Leftenant-Colon ...

Nancy Leftenant-Colon became the first African-American woman to serve in the desegregated Regular Army Nurse Corps. (CAF RISE ABOVE) Nancy Leftenant-Colon, the first Black woman to serve in the U ...