More DEI fallout: Air Force scraps course that used videos of Tuskegee Airmen and female WWII pilots
The U.S. Air Force has removed training courses for service members that included historical videos of its storied Black ...
Nancy Leftenant-Colon, who was the first Black woman in Army Nurse Corps, has died
The first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after the military was desegregated in the 1940s has died. She was ...
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Did you know men from Louisiana flew high as Tuskegee Airmen in World War II?
The historic, all-Black unit included more than 15,000 Black pilots, mechanics and cooks from throughout the nation, ...
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First Black woman to serve in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after desegregation dies
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 ...
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Nancy Leftenant-Colon, who was the first Black woman in Army Nurse Corps, has died
The first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after the military was desegregated ... including a brother who was a famed Tuskegee Airmen pilot. He was killed in a mid-air collision ...
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Funeral for 1st Black military nurse, Goose Creek native, set for Saturday in NY
In 1945, she was accepted into the Army Nurse Corps as a reservist with the rank of second lieutenant ... She was the sister of one of the famous Tuskegee Airmen, the first Black airmen who fought ...
The past, present
Catching glimpses of this landscape’s history — present but fading — Yvette wondered how she figured into it. Were any of her ancestors here? Would they have lived in the manors? Would they have been ...
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Nancy Leftenant-Colon, who was the first Black woman in Army Nurse Corps, has died
The first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after ... regular U.S. Army Nursing Corps and the only woman ever elected as president of the Tuskegee Airmen Inc. Leftenant-Colon is ...