The first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after the military was desegregated in the 1940s has died. She was 104. Nancy Leftenant-Colon, who retired as a major and died earlier this ...

Each day, as we have learned, brings new information about another first for Black Americans. It is something that may go on ...

Nancy Leftenant-Colon, the first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after the military was desegregated in the 1940s, died Jan. 8. Here, an American flag is presented to Leftenant-Colon ...

This late 1940's photo provided by the US Air Force Historical Support Office shows retired U.S. Army Nurse Corps Major Nancy Leftenant-Colon. (US Air Force Historical Support Office via AP) ...

serving as the first African American in the regular Army Nurse Corps and later caring for the sick and injured as a flight nurse in the Air Force, died Jan. 8 at a nursing home in Amityville ...

Well done, Mrs. Leftenant-Colon! The first Black woman to serve in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps following its desegregation after World War II, Nancy Leftenant-Colon, passed away at 104, VPM reported.

The first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after the military was desegregated in the 1940s has died. She was 104. Nancy Leftenant-Colon, who retired as a major and died earlier this ...

A Lowcountry native who became the nation’s first Black military nurse will be laid to rest in New York this weekend.