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Margaret E. Bailey

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were scarce, and generally limited to cleaning, teaching, or nursing, all strictly within segregated facilities for black people. However, a year later, in September 1939, Bailey surprised her colleagues and became the first black nurse to voluntarily resign her position at Mercy Hospital. She had
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In the early years of her Army career, especially during her stations abroad, Bailey frequently encountered people who had never worked with or even seen a black woman before. She enjoyed taking extra steps to educate these people about black culture, believing these actions to be important steps
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In subsequent years, Bailey served as both medical and surgical nurse at numerous domestic and international facilities, including in France, Germany, and Japan. Despite intermittent racial discrimination, Bailey gradually advanced through the ranks. In 1950, she completed a six-month psychiatric
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In the last years of her military service and throughout her retirement, Bailey regularly made speeches in black communities to promote integration and military service. For example, on February 27, 2000, 84-year-old Bailey traveled from her Washington, D.C., home to Alabama to speak at the
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Bailey was in the "vanguard of the integration movement." As the policy of segregation in the Army ended in 1965, she called it "difficult yet rewarding milestone". Yet, at that time only 6.6% of the Nurse Corps were black, so Bailey continued her efforts to increase black participation.
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Bailey retired in July, 1971, after 27 years of service, nine of which she served outside the United States. She was regarded as an "exemplary professional officer." Upon her retirement, she was awarded the
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with the special responsibility to promote increased participation of minorities the in Army Nurse Corps. This assignment was commended by the
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personally. Still, at the end of 1943, only 183 black nurses served in a Corps of 52,000 nurses, and they routinely faced discrimination.
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towards integration. In her later years, Bailey enthusiastically supported recruiting more black women into the Army. While stationed in
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Bailey was assigned to "all-Negro unit" in the Corps. Ironically, the start of Bailey's military career brought her not to the
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Bailey received multiple awards and commendations both for her Army service and her activism. Her Army medals included the
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Bailey worked at Seaview Hospital for almost five years, until she decided to enlist in US military in the summer of 1944.
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in 1964, the first black chief nurse in a mixed, non-segregated unit in 1966, and the first black full colonel in 1967.
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We're not going to take it anymore: educational and psychological practices from an Africentric paradigm of helping
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Brown, Geraldine (September 1, 2014), Brown, Geraldine (ed.), "Remembering Col. Margaret E. Bailey, Ret. US Army",
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The Challenge – Autobiography of Margaret E. Bailey, First Black Nurse Promoted to Colonel in the Army Nurse Corps
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in the Nurse Corps. She set several landmarks for black nurses in US military, becoming the first black
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After her retirement from the Army, on July 1, 1972, Bailey accepted the position of Consultant to the
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At the time, this hospital was the nation's largest facility, specializing in the treatment of
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to receive her bachelor's degree in nursing from the San Francisco State College in 1959.
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In 1967 and 1969, she was named the Woman of the Year by several women's organizations.
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extension in Germany which later counted towards her bachelor's degree in nursing.
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to advocate for more black participation in the Army. Baily was a speaker at the
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Bailey grew up in one of the most segregated areas of the South. She was born in
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Townsend, Phela (2005), Jackson, Gerald G. (ed.), "Colonel Margaret Bailey",
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promote Bailey and 155 other black public servants to government positions.
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Welham, Walter, ed. (September 1, 1972), "Colonel Bailey holds new post",
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Served as assistant chief nurse, then head nurse on the officers' ward.
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Bailey died on August 28, 2014, in Washington, D.C. She was buried on
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Was in charge of Nightingale program, recruiting nurses for the Army.
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In 1938, Bailey graduated from the nursing school and found a job at
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Carnegie, Mary Elizabeth (1986), Hill, Paul R.; Ewan, Helen (eds.),
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and publicly advocated for minority recruitment to the Nurse Corps.
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On July 15, 1964, after 20 years of service, Bailey was promoted to
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They called them angels: American military nurses of World War II
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which later counted towards her bachelor's degree in nursing.
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This was career success, as opportunities for black women in
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In 1999, Bailey completed and published her autobiography
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after accumulating credits from multiple universities.
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Thompson, Kathleen (1997), "Bailey, Margaret E.", in
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Completed a six-month psychiatric nursing course at
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A contemporary history of the U.S. Army Nurse Corps
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Selma, Alabama
Arlington National Cemetery
United States Army
Colonel
United States Army Nurse Corps
Legion of Merit
Army Commendation Medal
World War II Victory Medal
American Campaign Medal
National Defense Medal
United States Army Nurse Corps
colonel
second lieutenant
military rank
lieutenant colonel
German prisoners of war
Surgeon General
Nixon administration
Selma, Alabama
Mobile, Alabama
Great Depression
Montgomery, Alabama

Mercy Hospital
St. Petersburg, Florida
primary care
the South
Seaview Hospital
Staten Island, New York

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