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Mary Mahoney Professional Nurses Organization original members, date unknown

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The sharp prejudice could have left a lifelong wound, but Maxine Haynes was in a healing profession. Rejected by the University of Washington's nursing school for being a "colored girl," ...she studied in New York, returned to Seattle as the first African American nurse hired at Providence Hospital, taught in California and again came back to Seattle, eventually to teach at the university that once saw only the hue of her skin. (Seattle P-I) Full story: Maxine Haynes: 1919-2004 'The Jackie Robinson of the nursing community'...