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American Nursing Hall of Fame Inductees
A list of more than 50 nurses whose contributions merit this award, with links to biographies.

Black Nurses in History
This guide to print and web resources covers the history of black nurses in general plus several well-known or lesser known individuals.

County Health Nurse
Interview with Miss Mattie Ingram in 1939, describing public health nursing among African Americans in South Carolina.

Mary Eliza Mahoney
Biography of Mary Eliza Mahoney, the first black woman to receive nursing school degree and to be certified as a registered nurse.

Nurses and Human Rights
A report from Amnesty International.

Nursing History Review
Online table of contents for this journal; to read the articles, you'll have to find them in a library, order them through interlibrary loan, or order back copies.

Gravesites of Prominent Nurses
From the American Association for the History of Nursing, a growing collection of information, often with photographs, of the gravesites of notable nurses. The entries include brief profiles of the nursing careers of the women.