Lincoln School for Nurses

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The Lincoln School School for Nurses was the first and only nursing school for African-American women in New York City, until the municipally funded Harlem Hospital School of Nursing was established in 1923.{{cite web |title=Established Clinical Medicine in Harlem |url=http://northbysouth.kenyon.edu/1998/health/hospny.htm |website=northbysouth.kenyon.edu |access-date=February 27, 2022}} The Lincoln School School for Nurses' first graduating class was in 1900, with a total of six graduates. From 1906 to 1923 Adah Belle Thoms, a 1905 graduate, served as acting director.Sandra Beth Lewenson, Taking Charge: Nursing, Suffrage, and Feminism in America, 1873-1920 (1996), p.53. In 1908, she, along with Martha Minerva Franklin, and Mary Eliza Mahoney, organized the first meeting of the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses, which was sponsored by the Lincoln School for Nurses Alumnae Association.{{cite web |title=archives.nypl.org -- National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses records |url=https://archives.nypl.org/scm/20744 |website=archives.nypl.org |access-date=February 22, 2022}}

The 1914 demographics of the hospital and nursing school has been reported as: the hospital patients were primarily white; the nursing home patients were primarily black; the doctors were white males; and the nurses and nursing students were black females.Hutchinson (2006), p. 6.

In 1928 Isabel Maitland Stewart directed the first university-sponsored studies in nursing using a research team approach. What made the survey unique was that it focused on both the nursing process and results of care in terms of patient comfort and safety.{{cite web |author1=R. Louise McManus |title=Isabel M. Stewart — Foremost Researcher |url=http://www.tcneaa.org/images/Courier_Fall_2012_Winter_2013_FINAL.pdf |website=tcneaa.org |accessdate=October 26, 2019 |page=1 |date=1962}}

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• Ianthe Blyden attended in 1946.{{sfn|The American Journal of Nursing|1946|p=263}}
• Phyllis Mae Dailey, first African American woman to enter the United States Navy{{Cite web |last=Brookstein |first=Adrienne |date=March 8, 2022 |title=#VeteranOfTheDay Navy Veteran Phyllis Mae Dailey |url=https://news.va.gov/84808/veteranoftheday-navy-veteran-phyllis-mae-dailey/ |access-date=2023-02-22 |website=VA News |publisher=U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs |language=en-US}}
• Florence Edmonds attended in 1917-1919.{{cite web |title=Black Women Oral History Project Interviews, 1976–1981: Biographies |url=https://guides.library.harvard.edu/schlesinger_bwohp/biographies |website=Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America Research Guides |accessdate=4 June 2020}}
• Mary Elizabeth Carnegie attended in 1932-1936.{{cite news|last1=Sullivan|first1=Patricia|title=M. Elizabeth Carnegie, 91; Advocated for Black Nurses|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/06/AR2008030603678.html|access-date=July 24, 2014|newspaper=Washington Post|date=March 7, 2008}} Former president of the American Academy of Nursing.
• Martha Minerva Franklin post-graduate course in 1928.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gWhf3WFS-FsC&q=Martha%2520Minerva%2520Franklin|title=Early Black American Leaders in Nursing: Architects for Integration and Equality|last=Davis|first=Althea T.|date=1999-01-01|publisher=Jones & Bartlett Learning|isbn=9780763710095|language=en}}
• Florence S. Gaynor graduated in 1946. Executive director of Sydenham Hospital, and a director at Meharry Medical College.{{cite news |author=Sibley, John |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1971/02/10/archives/pioneering-hospital-director-florence-small-gaynor.html |title=Pioneering Hospital Director Florence Small Gaynor |work=The New York Times |date=February 10, 1971 |access-date=September 17, 2020 |quote=In the bleak years or the early thirties, at Lincoln High School in Jersey City, a black girl named Florence Small let herself dream of a career in nursing, an all but unreachable goal.}}
• Millie Essie Gibson Hale founded Millie E. Hale Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee .{{cite web |title=Millie E. Hale called by death. |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/77488451/nashville-banner/ |website=Nashville Banner |publisher=Nashville Banner |access-date=March 2, 2022 |pages=1 |date=7 June 1930}}
• Lillian Holland Harvey graduated in 1939. Dean of Tuskegee Institute Training School of Nurses.{{cite book |author=Shaw, Stephanie J. |title=What Women Ought to Be and Do: Black Professional Women Workers in the Jim Crow Era |location=Chicago |publisher=University of Chicago Press |year=1996 |page=234}}
• Nella Larsen graduated in 1915. Novelist, nurse, librarian. She was involved in the Harlem Renaissance.Pinckney, Darryl, "Shadows" (review of In Search of Nella Larsen: A Biography of the Color Line, by George Hutchinson), Nation 283, no. 3 (July 17, 2006), pp. 26-28.
• Nancy Leftenant-Colon first black woman allowed to join desegregated US Army Nurse Corps, 1945.{{cite web |last1=Thompson |first1=Cheryl W |title=First Black Woman to serve in the US Army Nurse Corps after desegregation dies |url=https://www.npr.org/2025/01/15/g-s1-42698/nancy-leftenant-colon-military-army-tuskegee-obituary |website=National Public radio |access-date=15 January 2025}}
• Hulda Margaret Lyttle attended in 1913-1914. Dean of Meharry Medical College's School of Nursing.{{Cite web|url=http://www.mmc.edu/meharry_life/homepage_features_2013/october_2013/hulda_lyttle_bio.html|title=Hulda Margaret Lyttle, R.N.|website=www.mmc.edu|access-date=2017-10-28}}
• Adah Belle Thoms graduated in 1905. Acting director of the school from 1906 - 1923.
• Helen Turner Watson graduated in 1939. Professor of nursing at the University of Connecticut.{{Cite news |date=1992-09-28 |title=Obituary of Helen Turner Watson |pages=20 |work=Hartford Courant |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/19023457/hartford-courant/ |access-date=2023-02-15}}

• Estelle Massey Osborne an instructor at the school.
• Harlem Hospital School of Nursing established 1923. The second New York City nursing school to accept African-American women.
• List of defunct colleges and universities in New York
• National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses established 1908. Dissolved in 1951.

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• Hutchinson, George (2006), [https://books.google.com/books/about/In_search_of_Nella_Larsen.html?id=kJ3M6QsS9k4C In Search of Nella Larsen: A Biography of the Color Line], Harvard University Press.
• {{cite journal|ref={{harvid|The American Journal of Nursing|1946}}|author=|title=Nurses from other countries study at Lincoln School, New York|journal=The American Journal of Nursing|date=April 1946|volume=46|issue=4|page=263|jstor=3456941|publisher=Lippincott Williams & Wilkins|location=Philadelphia, Pennsylvania|issn=0002-936X}}

• [https://archives.nypl.org/scm/20728 The Lincoln School for Nurses collection 1840-2011 at the New York Public Library]
• [https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/lincoln-school-for-nurses-photograph-collection#/?tab=about Lincoln School For Nurses Photograph Collection at the New York Public Library]

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