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The first black nursery of the 1948’s first nurses of the American armed forces in the United Kingdom Ministers in American armeds, died on January 8 in Long Island. He was 104 years old.
Gilda Leftenant, his cousin, strengthened his death at a medical center.
Mrs. Leftenant-Colon has entered the US Army Nurse Corps in February 1948 months before President Harry S. Truman commands separates the military.
It is the supreme of the seven years of struggle. In 1941 he tried to register in 1941, just from the nurse School, but was told that the soldiers did not accept black women. He kept trying, and in 1945, with the injured soldier in the overseas war next to the Supreme Cover, was received into the stock.
He was one of the 500 black nurses serving during the Second World War, as a total of 50,000 – the crown of the government that prevented thousands of black women from serving.
His service at a hospital in Lowell, Mass, Mrs. Leftennt-Colon. Although he served in a solitary branch, the hospital, who was part of the name of discrimination against discrimination against discrimination.
A year later, he moved to Lockbourne Army Air Field in Columbus, Ohio, who entered the medical center with 332nd Fighter Group, part of the famous Airmen Tuskegee.
He repeatedly faced hatred supervisors, which made it clear that he would be taken on money for minimal offenses. “I was sure that I was going to spit and colored,” he said in the Long Island Newsday in 2023.
Once, when a black woman under her care was not a month, she and her patients were denied to the hospital for white people; He and a black flight surgeon raised the child alone. (The baby is out of the baby.)
Later, while serving in Alabama, Mrs. Leftenant-Colon was not allowed to eat at a white restaurant, even though it was a uniform. As he traveled through a town in the south, a white woman spit on her face.
He joined the American Air Force in 1952, five years after his creation, to fulfill his dream to become a flight nurse.
He received his desires: in the next 13 years, his post was found in Germany, Japan and various tools across the United States. In 1954, he helped dismiss the injured French soldiers in Dien Phu, a siege camp by the Vietnamese Communist army. She met Bob HOP while she was making a soldiers supported by soldiers; Once he met Marilyn Monroe.
“I had to go to the world for free,” he said to Newsday.
His commission has made international news as an officer Nurse Army Corps.
He said to Newsday in 1978: “It was just part of the work.
Nancy carol leftenant, known as Lefty, was born on September 29, 1920, in Goose Creek, SC, a farmer community near Charleston. Both the parents of Eunice (Middleton) Leftenant were children born in slavery.
When Nancy was 3 years old, the family moved to Amityville – with the last 11 children in the end – where their father had a workman and his mother as a home.
He graduated at Lincoln School for the Nurses, in Bronx, one of the first open institutions for black women. While he tried to serve as a soldier several times, he worked at the hospital around New York City.
“I saw a picture of a nurse with the shoot,” he said to Newsday in 1997. “She is very beautiful – straight and long. I want to do my part. “
He married Bayard Colon in 1960. Died in 1972. Apart from Gilda Leftennt, he had a sister named, and his cousin.
Mrs. Leftenant-Colon retired from the 1965 major number and returned to Amityville, where he was working as a nurse in the local high school.
He was active in Tuskegee Airmen Inc., a veteran organization in the same story. He was his president from 1989 and 1991. He was the only woman who held that place.
This is the most bitter assignment: Not only did he help pilot in the group, but one of his brothers, Samuel G. Leftenant was even Tuskegee Airman. He flew P-51 Mustang, and in 1945 he was shot in Austria. He was declared dead, even though the ancestors were not visible.
