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Never Let Your Circumstances Determine Your Destiny

Nurse.com

People who typically go unrecognized in nursing history — Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, James Derham, and Mary Eliza Mahoney — were prominent advocates for equality in nursing and in the suffrage movement. Mahoney, for instance, is documented as the first Black nurse to have earned a nursing degree.