(photo credit: Blackpast) 6. Jessie Sleet Scales Another pioneering African-American nurse was Jessie Sleet Scales, who in 1900 became America’s first Black public health nurse. Trained in Chicago, ...

Hyder studied midwifery at MCA with funding from the Rockefeller Foundation. Lasting only 1 year, 1942-1943, Flint Goodrich graduated two African American nurse-midwives.

The Boston College Connell School of Nursing has been awarded a $1.06-million grant from the American Nurses Foundation to fund a pilot project, led by CSON Assistant Professor Monica O'Reilly-Jacob, ...