STEM – Nurses
Albertina Sisulu (1918-2011)
Albertina Sisulu was a South African politician and nurse known for her anti-apartheid activism. Sisulu was born Nontsikelo Thethiwe on...
Cori Bush (1976- )
Cori Anika Bush is the first African America woman elected to represent Missouri’s 1st Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives. She...
Leith P. Mullings (1945-2020)
Dr. Leith Patricia Mullings was an anthropologist, author, and professor. She is one of triplets with Pauline Mullings and Sandra...
Lauren Underwood (1986- )
In 2018, Lauren Underwood was elected to the U.S. Congress representing the 14th Congressional district of Illinois which is suburban...
Bessie Blount Griffin (1914-2009)
Bessie Virginia Blount, pioneer physical therapist, inventor, and scientist, was born in Hickory (today Chesapeake), Virginia, on November 24, 1914. In the sixth...
Bernice Mathews (1933- )
Bernice Mathews is a small business owner and the director of the nursing program at Truckee Meadows Community College in...
Barbara Hillary (1931-2019)
Barbara Hillary was the first African American woman on record to reach both the North and South Poles. Born in...
Mary Jane Seacole (1805-1881)
Mary Jane Grant Seacole was an early nurse in the British Empire during the 19th Century. Born in Kingston, Jamaica...
Ann Bradford Stokes (1830-1903)
Ann Bradford, early African American Navy nurse, was born a slave in Rutherford County, Tennessee, in 1830. Few other details...
