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The Bolton Act increases opportunities for nurses of color to participate in wartime nursing.

Date: 1943

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The act introduces government grants for nursing programs to increase the amount of nurses able to serve in WWII. The act includes an anti-discrimination section, which is intended to end the racial segregation that is enforced in the medical military service.