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The American Red Cross accepts Black nurses for the first time.

1918

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Adah Belle Samuels Thoms, a Black nurse and charter member of the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses, urged Black women to enroll in the American Red Cross in 1917 when the U.S. declared war against Germany. Thanks to her efforts, the first Black nurses are enrolled a year later in July 1918.