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Nursing programs, funded by Black communities, for Black women begin to open in hospitals.

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By 1907, there will be 12 such training programs open across the U.S., most notably in Chicago, New York, and Washington, D.C. These programs form in response to the explicit exclusion of Black Americans from schools of medicine, schools of nursing, and hospitals. Given the discrimination in admissions at many existing medical training programs for nurses, these schools attach themselves directly to hospitals that predominantly serve Black patients.