Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. 2.2 linear ft.

Summary

1. Records document the organization and development of the Association consisting of minutes, 1908-1937; correspondence, including letters from the Citizens' Advisory Committee especially documenting efforts to integrate black nurses into the Armed Forces during World War II, 1937-1951; reports and speeches, 1937-1955; studies and surveys, 1940-1950; and printed material consisting of newsletters, convention programs, pamphlets, press releases, and scrapbooks of news clippings of the Association and black women in the nursing field.

Subject

1. Nursing > United States
2. Scrapbooks
3. African American graduate students > Societies, etc
4. Associations, institutions, etc > African American membership > New York (State) > New York
5. Discrimination in employment > United States
6. African American nurses > Societies, etc
7. African Americans in medicine
8. Franklin, Martha Minerva, 1870-1968
9. National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses

Genre/Form

1. Scrapbooks.

Call number

1. Sc Micro R 6565

Note

1. Photographs transferred to Photographs and Prints Division.

Access (note)

1. Researchers are restricted to microfilm copy.

Additional formats (note)

1. Collection available on microfilm;

Source (note)

1. National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses

Biography (note)

1. Under Martha Minerva Franklin's guidance, 52 nurses assembled to form the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses in 1908 and Franklin was elected president. Its aim was to achieve higher professional standards, end discriminatory practices against black nurses, and develop leadership among black nurses. NACGN was dissolved in 1951.

Author

1. National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses.

Title

1. National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses records, 1908-1958.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. microform

Type of carrier

1. microfilm reel

Additional formats

1. Collection available on microfilm; Scholarly Resources, Inc.

Access

1. Researchers are restricted to microfilm copy.

Biography

1. Under Martha Minerva Franklin's guidance, 52 nurses assembled to form the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses in 1908 and Franklin was elected president. Its aim was to achieve higher professional standards, end discriminatory practices against black nurses, and develop leadership among black nurses. NACGN was dissolved in 1951.

Finding aids

1. "National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses Records, 1908-1951" in "Manuscript Collections from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture: Guide to the Scholarly Resources Microfilm Edition." Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, Inc.

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1. Finding Aid

Research call number

1. Sc Micro R 6565