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Mary was the first licensed African American nurse in the United States and first African American graduate of an American nursing school. She was born in the spring of 1845 in Dorchester, Massachusetts to freed, formerly enslaved people who relocated from North Carolina for a chance at better civil and economic opportunities for their family.
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May 7, 1845, Dorchester, Boston, Massachusetts*
Death
January 4, 1926 (age 80), Boston, Massachusetts
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Phillips School, New England Hospital for Women and Children
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Nursing
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Co-Founder of National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses
Nurses Associated Alumnae of the US and Canada
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*some sources say April 6, 1845
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