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Designer’s Note
Remember those who came before. Mary Eliza Mahoney () was the first Black woman in America to become a licensed nurse. Mahoney was the daughter of former slaves who moved to Boston. She was determined to become a nurse and 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 at years old. The formal nursing training, one of the first in the nation, was a -month intensive program. Of the 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 . 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 th Amendment.