Tuskegee Army Nurses Project – Nursing Schools Attended

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Nursing Schools Attended

THE TUSKEGEE ARMY NURSES WERE GRADUATES OF THE FOLLOWING INSTITUTIONS:

Four of the Tuskegee Army Nurses were graduates of the St. Philip School of Nursing in Richmond, Virginia. The segregated school for black nurses operated from 1920 to 1962. It was part of the Medical College of Virginia which later became part of Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) in Richmond. Norma Greene 1936, Mencie Trotter 1940 & future instructor at the school, Della Bassett 1941, Louise Lomax 1942

Richmond Times-Dispatch.com (December 6, 2011) Lessons of a segregated nursing school

VCU School of Nursing blog (January 11, 2013) Richmond Magazine Features Article on 50th Anniversary of St. Philip Closing

**Hampton Institute** **School of Nursing, Hampton, VA,** Beatrice Hill, Sarah Thomas

**Florida A & M**, **Tallahassee, FLA,** Frances McCloud 1942

**Lincoln Hospital School of Nursing, Durham, NC,** Della Raney 1937, Ruth Faulkner

**Kansas City General** **Hospital Nursing School,** **Kansas City, MO**,
Abbie Voorhies

**Harlem Hospital** **School of Nursing, NY,** Alice Dunkley & Mary Rickards 1940, Irma Cameron 1942

Savanah State University School of Nursing, Elise Grant

**University of Georgia Nursing,** Naomi Bell 1942

**Lincoln School of Nursing, NY,** Octavia Bridgwater, 1930 Kathryn Bough, 1932

**University Hospital School of Nursing, University of Michigan,** Marjorie Franklin 1927

Freedmen’s Hospital Training School for Nurses, DC, Ruth Carter, Susie Pinkley

Grady Memorial Hospital School of Nursing, GA, Elizabeth T. Dozier, Elsie H. Wallace

St. Agnes Training School for Nurses, Raleigh, NC, Ruth Speight 1941, Mamie Frierson

Mercy Hospital School of Nursing, Philadelphia, PA, Gertrude Scott

Kate Bitting Reynolds Memorial Hospital, Winston-Salem, NC, Alice P. Binford

Cambridge City Hospital, Cambridge Massachusetts, Grace Scott

Savannah State U School of Nursing, GA, Elise Grant