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The National League of Nursing Education opens membership to nurses barred from state associations.

1942

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The National League of Nursing Education (NLNE) creates individual membership, enabling African-American nurses to participate in the organization if they are barred from their local state associations. Up to this time, state leagues in the South have prohibited membership for Black nurses.