Carrie E. Bullock
{{Short description|American nurse}}
Carrie E. Bullock (c. 1887 – December 31, 1962){{Cite web|url=http://www.chicagowomenspark.com/SIGNIFICANTCHICAGOWOMEN.php|title=Celebrating Significant Chicago Women|website=Chicago Parks and Gardens|access-date=2 February 2020|archive-date=30 December 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181230220347/http://chicagowomenspark.com/SIGNIFICANTCHICAGOWOMEN.php|url-status=dead}} was an American nurse. She served as the president of the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses (NACGN) and founded their official newsletter.
Biography
Bullock was born in Laurens, South Carolina and raised by her grandparents who were former slaves.{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/fromballotstobre00sara|url-access=registration|title=From Ballots to Breadlines : American Women, 1920-1940|last=Deutsch|first=Sarah|date=1994|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=0-19-508063-7|location=New York|pages=[https://archive.org/details/fromballotstobre00sara/page/n45 44]-45|oclc=28799201|via=Internet Archive}} Bullock attended the Presbyterian Missionary School in Aiken, South Carolina.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=56KH2aisL_UC&q=%22carrie+e+bullock%22+nurse&pg=PA338|title=Organizing Black America: An Encyclopedia of African American Associations|publisher=Garland Publishing, Inc.|year=2001|isbn=978-1-135-58123-7|editor-last=Mjagkij|editor-first=Nina|location=New York|pages=338|language=en}} In 1904, she graduated from the Scotia Seminary in Concord, North Carolina. She taught school for two years in South Carolina before she enrolled in nurses' training school at Dixie Hospital in Hampton, Virginia. She soon transferred to Provident Hospital in Chicago and graduated from nursing training in 1909. That same year, she joined the Chicago Visiting Nurses Association. In 1919, she was promoted to supervisor of the black nurses in the Chicago association. In 1926, she became the supervisor of the Dearborn section.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/43500869/chicago_tribune/|title=After 40 Years, Visiting Nursing Still 'Great Joy' to Miss Bullock|last=Miller|first=Lucy Key|date=1950-01-31|work=Chicago Tribune|access-date=2020-02-02|pages=18|via=Newspapers.com}} In 1940, she was awarded the first of two 30 year service pins for her work at the Visiting Nurses Association.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/43500823/chicago_tribune/|title=Visiting Nurse Association Awards Two 30 Year Pins|date=1940-01-25|work=Chicago Tribune|access-date=2020-02-02|pages=21|via=Newspapers.com}} When she reached 40 years of work, she was awarded a gold watch. She retired from the Visiting Nurses Association on June 1, 1956.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/43500784/chicago_tribune/|title=Front Views & Profiles|last=Miller|first=Lucy Key|date=1956-09-24|work=Chicago Tribune|access-date=2020-02-02|pages=49|via=Newspapers.com}}
Bullock was active as a volunteer in the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses (NACGN). She organized the annual meeting of NACGN in Chicago in 1923.{{Cite journal|date=June 1923|title=Nursing News and Announcements|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pjsnAQAAIAAJ&q=%22carrie+e+bullock%22+nurse&pg=PA791|journal=The American Journal of Nursing|volume=23|issue=9|pages=791}} She was elected vice-president of NACGN at the Chicago meeting.{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/blackwomeninamer00hine/page/477|title=Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia|last=Armfield|first=Felix|publisher=Carlson Publishing Inc|year=1993|isbn=0926019619|editor-last=Hine|editor-first=Darlene Clark|volume=1|location=Brooklyn, New York|pages=[https://archive.org/details/blackwomeninamer00hine/page/477 477]|chapter=Bullock, Carrie E.|via=Internet Archive}} By the end of the 1920's Bullock also helped set up a grant from the Rosenwald Fund to train one black nurse per year.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_mC0CAAAQBAJ&q=%22carrie+e+bullock%22+nurse&pg=PA89|title=Nursing and Empire: Gendered Labor and Migration from India to the United States|last=Reddy|first=Sujani K.|publisher=The University of North Carolina Press|year=2015|isbn=978-1-4696-2508-9|location=Chapel Hill|pages=89|language=en}} Bullock was the NACGN president from 1927 until 1930. She worked to increase communication in the black nursing community. In 1928, Bullock founded the NACGN's newsletter, the National News Bulletin, which she edited.{{Cite journal|last=Staupers|first=Mabel Keaton|date=January 1938|title=History of the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G-UhAQAAMAAJ&pg=PP1|journal=National Negro Health News|volume=6|pages=14}} In 1938, she was awarded the Mary Mahoney Award for outstanding achievement in nursing and human services by NACGN.
After Bullock retired from nursing, she continued to work as a volunteer at Provident hospital.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/43506044/chicago_tribune/|title=Miss Bullock, Widely Known Nurse, Is Dead|date=1963-01-02|work=Chicago Tribune|access-date=2020-02-02|pages=62|via=Newspapers.com}} She also worked with children at the Grace Presbyterian Church. She died on December 31, 1962, in Billings Hospital.
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