Today, I will be giving you information about the first African American nurse; her name is Mary Eliza Mahoney. Mary was in the medical field that’s what made her important to a lot of black people that couldn’t be able to do or even be a nurse anything of that nature. She is important to black history because she was the first African American get her degree in nursing field she had attended in Memorial health center in Oklahoma City and also Indiana University Northwest, was inducted into the American Nurses Association Hall of Fame in 1976 and to the National Women’s Hall of Fame and she also co-founded of the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses that is changing half of the paths for many black women as change. She also was a civil …show more content…
By her achieving those awards that made African American women think if she did it then I can do it also because when you scribble to do your best, You can achieve it no matter what because that’s what you want to do. Mahoney was important to a lot people just like me because when I grow up I want to be a nurse. She has do many things to make her important in black history but the most reason why she was important to be because she was a civil rights activist, women’s right activist and also a nurse. The last but not least reason why Mary Mahoney was in black history was she was a civil rights activist, women’s activists and also a nurse. She was important to civil rights activist and in women’s rights activist because of the reason of this facts and information that I have given you are reason I think she is important of black history. But there are many other people that was important as her. The most reason I’ve chose her was because she makes me think she really wanted to be different than others and fight for her education to be better in