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Nancy Leftenant-Colon
American nurse (–)
Nancy Leftenant-Colon (September 29, – January 8, ) became the first African American in the regular United States Army Nurse Corps in March after it was desegregated.[1]
Biography
Leftenant was born September 29, , in Goose Creek near Charleston.
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Her parents were Eunice and James Leftenant and she was one of their 12 children. Her father was the son of a freed slave. The family moved to New York in and built their own home in Amityville, Long Island. She hyphenated her husband's name after they married, to Leftenant-Colon.
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She died in Amityville, New York on January 8, , at the age of [2][3]
She finished high school in and then trained at the Lincoln School for Nurses in the Bronx and then worked in a local hospital.
In January she was allowed to join the United States Army Nurse Corps as a Second Lieutenant reservist and was initially assigned to Lowell Hospital in Massachusetts. In she was promoted