Skip to main content

The timeline can be navigated with the “Scroll Left” and “Scroll Right” buttons or by dragging the pointer to a date on the timeline waveform (located at the bottom of the screen on the desktop version and on the left of the screen on mobile). To filter by a particular topic and see a smaller section of the data, make a selection on the dropdown “Filters” menu or click “Search” to do a keyword search. Hover over the abbreviated filter tags in the blue boxes to see the complete name of the filter, or click a filter to display all the data with this tag. If you want to take a deeper dive into a specific topic by viewing a narrative essay page and a curated timeline, click on “Stories.”

Read More

The American Nurses Association begins to require nurses to be members of a state nursing association.

Date: 1916

NRS
RAC
JCL

The state nursing associations in 16 states and the District of Columbia exclude Black nurses, thereby barring them from membership in the American Nursing Association (ANA). Many states also require nurses to take state exams to become nurses, but bar Black practitioners from taking those exams.