Nurse

Nursing

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]

Anna DeCosta Banks

[Anna DeCosta Banks May 1891 Waring Historical Library,
Public Domain via Wikipedia Commons]

– – – 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 – – –

Anna DeCosta Banks – Hospital & Training School for Nurses McClennan-Banks Memorial Hospital

Anna Decosta Banks, RN

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