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The American Red Cross votes to exclude Black nurses from wartime roles.

Date: 1911

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The American Red Cross is the recruiting arm of the Army and Navy Nurse Corps. They cite the Surgeon General's statement that the Army would not be able to provide suitable segregated quarters for Black nurses. This will be maintained until the 1918 flu epidemic.