News - Army celebrates accomplishments of African-American women http://www.armymwr.com/news/news.aspx?nid=698 The early contributions of African-American women include serving as nurses during the Civil War and Spanish-American War, and in other support roles such as cooks, seamstresses and launderers.At the outset of World War I, many trained African-American nurses enrolled in the American Red Cross because they hoped to enter the Army or Navy Nurse Corps, she said.

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