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Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "The National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses was started in 1908 when the American Nurses Association refused to accept black women into the association. Before 1911, black women were allowed to be members of ANA but there were far less number compared to the white members. In 1911, only black alumni of the Freedom Hospital in Washington DC who were already members were allowed to continue as members. Without ANA membership, black nurses were primarily working for white families rather than in the hospitals they were trained to be in.Martha Franklin was frustrated with being excluded from ANA decided to from the black counterpart. In 1908, 52 nurses, including the soon-to-be co-president, Adah Belle Samuels Thoms, held a meeting together and decided to start the NACGN. As they left the meeting they had three main goals: “to advance the standards and best interests of trained nurses, to break down discrimination in the nursing profession, and to develop leadership within the ranks of black nurses.”To do this, the acting presidents of the NACGN not only actively fought for integration by other means but also attended the annual ANA conference to bring awareness to the topic.Through some leadership changes, Mabel Keaton Staupers and Carrie E. Bullock began putting the association to work in the early 1920’s. Staupers spent the beginning portion of her career as the secretary for the NACGN collecting data and beginning a registry of black nurses to help find a job. When World War II began, the army called for 56 black nurses while the navy refused to enlist any black nurses. Staupers fought the quota the army had and the outright rejection of the navy. She met with Eleanor Roosevelt to relay the hardships black nurses were going through in context of the getting a job for the US armed forces. When there was a nursing shortage announced Staupers made the publicized remark, “If nurses are needed so desperately why isn’t the army using colored nurses?” Through public pressure, the quotas and restrictions were officially removed. However, they weren’t always put into practice.While acting as vice president, Bullock was also worked with the Chicago Visiting Nurse Association for Black people which is what got her recognized to work with the NACGN. In 1928, Carrie E. Bullock started the newsletter National News Bulletin. She also convinced the Julius Rosenwald Fund to establish a fellowship program to help further educate and prepare nurses. Together, Staupers and Bullock were able to get a temporary headquarters.After the victory of integrating black nurses during World War II, the association felt they needed a break as they had exhausted all of their efforts. However it was shortly after this thought that their 15 years of pressuring the ANA to include black nurses in their program paid off. Shortly after Staupers took over as president. Due to the inclusion into ANA, Staupers and other members agreed that the NACGN was no longer needed and they dissolved. It was only about 20 years later when this opinion was disagreed on and the National Black Nurse Association started to take the NACGN’s place. The NBNA is still active today."@en }

• NACGN abstract "The National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses was started in 1908 when the American Nurses Association refused to accept black women into the association. Before 1911, black women were allowed to be members of ANA but there were far less number compared to the white members. In 1911, only black alumni of the Freedom Hospital in Washington DC who were already members were allowed to continue as members. Without ANA membership, black nurses were primarily working for white families rather than in the hospitals they were trained to be in.Martha Franklin was frustrated with being excluded from ANA decided to from the black counterpart. In 1908, 52 nurses, including the soon-to-be co-president, Adah Belle Samuels Thoms, held a meeting together and decided to start the NACGN. As they left the meeting they had three main goals: “to advance the standards and best interests of trained nurses, to break down discrimination in the nursing profession, and to develop leadership within the ranks of black nurses.”To do this, the acting presidents of the NACGN not only actively fought for integration by other means but also attended the annual ANA conference to bring awareness to the topic.Through some leadership changes, Mabel Keaton Staupers and Carrie E. Bullock began putting the association to work in the early 1920’s. Staupers spent the beginning portion of her career as the secretary for the NACGN collecting data and beginning a registry of black nurses to help find a job. When World War II began, the army called for 56 black nurses while the navy refused to enlist any black nurses. Staupers fought the quota the army had and the outright rejection of the navy. She met with Eleanor Roosevelt to relay the hardships black nurses were going through in context of the getting a job for the US armed forces. When there was a nursing shortage announced Staupers made the publicized remark, “If nurses are needed so desperately why isn’t the army using colored nurses?” Through public pressure, the quotas and restrictions were officially removed. However, they weren’t always put into practice.While acting as vice president, Bullock was also worked with the Chicago Visiting Nurse Association for Black people which is what got her recognized to work with the NACGN. In 1928, Carrie E. Bullock started the newsletter National News Bulletin. She also convinced the Julius Rosenwald Fund to establish a fellowship program to help further educate and prepare nurses. Together, Staupers and Bullock were able to get a temporary headquarters.After the victory of integrating black nurses during World War II, the association felt they needed a break as they had exhausted all of their efforts. However it was shortly after this thought that their 15 years of pressuring the ANA to include black nurses in their program paid off. Shortly after Staupers took over as president. Due to the inclusion into ANA, Staupers and other members agreed that the NACGN was no longer needed and they dissolved. It was only about 20 years later when this opinion was disagreed on and the National Black Nurse Association started to take the NACGN’s place. The NBNA is still active today.".