Nursing Civil Rights: Gender and Race in the Army Nurse Corps PUB19990319 Author: Antonio Badia

Author: Antonio Badia

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ISBN-10: 0231115644

An unforgettable portrait of the black immigrant experience

Nursing Civil Rights: Gender and Race in the Army Nurse Corps PUB19990319 Author: Antonio BadiaIn Nursing Civil Rights, Charissa J. Threat investigates the parallel battles against occupational segregation by African American women and white men in the U. S. Army. As Threat reveals, both groups viewed their circumstances with the Army Nurse Corps as a civil rights matter. Each conducted separate integration campaigns to end the discrimination they suffered. Yet their stories defy the narrative that civil rights struggles inevitably arced toward