she was accepted into the Army Reserve. She was one of just 500 Black nurses to serve during World War II, out of a total of 50,000 — a result of government caps that kept thousands more Black ...

Connecticut native Morton N. Katz, a WWII combat veteran who became a lawyer and represented needy clients in criminal cases ...

Leftenant, who had served as a fighter pilot — one of the Tuskegee Airmen — during World War II ... of an Army nurse. “She was striking, standing proud in her starched white uniform ...

Technological advancements, from digitized public records to DNA testing sites to video archives, amount to a golden age for genealogy. And for no other demographic is family history research more ...

CHICAGO - As a kid growing up in Chicago’s Chatham neighborhood on the south side, Lt. Col. Brandon Singleton, Finance Officer, 85th U.S. Army Reserve ...

But her plans to sign up as a military nurse ... World War II soldiers in a segregated ward. “Even when everything was literally stacked up against her, she stood proud, put that uniform on ...

At just 17 years old, Joseph Coy left Pittsfield High School to enlist in the Navy, serving on Utah Beach on D-Day and later ...

Instead of congratulating the congresswoman, numerous conservative influencers chose to mock and falsely accuse her.

The Washington, D.C., Evening Star reported Monday, Jan. 1, 1940, that “merry crowds” had gathered in the nation’s capital to ...

Alice Miller, 104, was presented with the Northcoast Veteran’s Museum display of her World War II U.S. Navy nurse’s uniform on Monday. The staff of the Valley View Health Campus senior living ...

Well done, Mrs. Leftenant-Colon! The first Black woman to serve in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps following its desegregation after World War II, Nancy Leftenant-Colon, passed away at 104, VPM reported.