Anna Decosta Banks
(September 2, 1869 – 1930)
American
"She was the first head nurse at the Hospital and Training School for Nurses, a segregated institution organized for the purpose of training black nurses with a hospital of their own." [SC African American]
Books
- Buhler-Wilkerson, Karen. 2001. No place like home: a history of nursing and home care in the United States. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press.
- Meffert, John W., and Sherman E. Pyatt. 2000. Charleston, South Carolina. Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia.
- Shaw, Stephanie J. 1996. What a Woman Ought to Be and to Do: Black Professional Women Workers during the Jim Crow Era. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Websites
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