107:. She met her husband, Cornelius McKane who was the grandson of a Liberian King, and moved with him to his physician's practice in Savannah. She was the only black female physician in Georgia in 1892. In 1893, the couple opened the McKane Training School for Nurses, a school for black nurses and the first one of its kind in Southeast Georgia. The first two-year course of the school was begun on September 1, 1893. She worked as a principal of the school. Students who wanted to apply to this course were required to pass a test about
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