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How did black women participate in the campaign to desegregate the US military in the Abraham Lincoln brigade?
Updated: 4/27/2022
Black nurses played a significant role in their efforts to desegregate the military by fighting for integration and against the Navy's ban on black nurses. The nurses obtained the assistance of First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt. As a result, Mabel Staupers, and the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses played a large part in the desegregation of the military.
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