Growing up on a farm on Highway 10 in Jackson, Bessie Mae Quiet-Foster decided she didn’t like farm work early on, but she ...
The first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after the military was desegregated in the 1940s has died. She was ...
Nancy Leftenant-Colon, 102, was the first Black woman to be commissioned into the regular U.S. Army Nursing Corps and the only woman ever elected as president of the Tuskegee Airmen Inc. Leftenant ...