Harlem Hospital School of Nursing

Harlem Hospital School of Nursing was a training school for African-American women, which was established at Harlem Hospital in Harlem, New York City in 1923. It was founded due to the lack of nursing schools in New York that accepted African American women. Until 1923, the Lincoln Hospital School for Nurses in The Bronx was the only school that allowed the enrollment of Black women.

Harlem Hospital School of Nursing

Former names	Training School for Colored Nurses of Harlem Hospital Training School for Nurses of Harlem Hospital
Type	Public nursing school
Active	January 3, 1923 (1923-01-03)–1977 (1977)
Founders	John Francis Hylan William Vassall Lurline Vassall DeShields
Parent institution	Harlem Hospital Center
Students	20 (first year class)
Location	Harlem, New York City , New York , United States
Campus	urban
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When Mayor Hylan sought reelection in 1921, the NAACP and other community organizations lobbied the mayor to improve healthcare access.^[1] Around the same time, Lurline Vassall of Brooklyn, was denied entry to the Bellevue Hospital School of Nursing because of her race.^[1] Lurline's father William Vassall launched a campaign to open a school for black nurses.^[1][3] In response, Hylan's administration supported the creation of the Harlem Hospital School of Nursing.^[1]

The school opened on January 3, 1923, with a class of twenty black women.^[1] It was a two and a half year program.^[1]

The Harlem Hospital School of Nursing closed in 1977.^[4]

Notable alumni and personnel

• Renee Amoore^[5]
• Goldie Brangman-Dumpson - graduated in 1943^[6]
• Rosetta Burke - graduated in 1957.^[7]
• Irma Dryden - graduated in 1942 ^[8]
• Alma Vessells John - attended 1926–1929.^[9]
• Hazel Johnson-Brown attended 1947-1950^[10][11] the first Black female general in the United States Army and the first Black chief of the United States Army Nurse Corps.^[12]
• Salaria Kea O'Reilly - attended 1930–1934.^[13]
• Estelle Massey Osborne - taught in the late 1920s.^[14]

See also

• Adah Belle Thoms

References

1. Building a Healthy Black Harlem. Cambria Press. ISBN 9781621969686.
2. "Established Clinical Medicine in Harlem". northbysouth.kenyon.edu. Retrieved November 12, 2021.
3. "A COMPILATION OF AFRICAN AMERICANS AND HISTORIC SITES IN THE TOWN OF HUNTINGTON Volume II" (PDF). TOWN OF HUNTINGTON NEW YORK. February 2009. Retrieved December 11, 2016.
4. "Exhibit Featuring Long-Closed Harlem Hospital School of Nursing Honors One of its Students". TWC News. Retrieved 2016-12-11.
5. "Renee J. Amoore's Biography". The HistoryMakers. Retrieved March 3, 2022.
6. Snyder, Jean. "Jean Snyder column: Remembering Goldie Brangman, the nurse anesthetist who helped save Rev. Martin Luther King Jr". Richmond Times-Dispatch. Retrieved March 3, 2022.
7. "Rosetta Burke". BMWF. Black Military Women Foundation. Retrieved March 3, 2022.
8. "Nurse to Tuskegee Airmen dies in Georgia at 100". abcnews.com. 2020-09-29. Retrieved 2020-10-06.
9. Clark, Karen (August 9, 1993). "Alma John papers 1955 - 1980" (PDF). New York Public Library Archives. Retrieved March 3, 2022.
10. . Washington Post. 6 March 2016. Archived from the original on 2016-03-06. Retrieved March 3, 2022.
11. Lukens, Rob (2012-06-28). "History's People: Hazel Johnson-Brown, First Female Black General". Chester County Historical Society. Retrieved 2021-02-04.
12. "Hazel Johnson". answers.com. Retrieved 3 July 2011.
13. "Kea, Salaria". The Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives. The Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives. 10 December 2019. Retrieved March 3, 2022.
14. "archives.nypl.org -- Estelle Massey Osborne papers". archives.nypl.org. Retrieved February 1, 2022.

External links

• http://northbysouth.kenyon.edu/1998/health/hospny.htm