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Mary Eliza Mahoney

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Detailed Information

Personal details and public facts.

Profession
Doctor
Died
Jan 4, 1926
Zodiac
Taurus
Born in
Massachusetts
About
Famous as the first African American professional nurse, she is also remembered as the founder of the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses, which later became part of the American Nurses Association. She was also a notable women's suffragist and civil rights activist.
Family
The children of former slaves, she and her two younger siblings were raised in Dorchester, Massachusetts.

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