Congratulations to Dr. Taylor! Dr. Jackie Taylor has been selected by the American Nurses Association (ANA) as the 2018 recipient of the Mary Mahoney Award. Dr. Taylor will receive this award in June at the ANA meeting in Washington, D.C.
The award was established to recognize those individuals “opening and advancing equal opportunities in nursing to members of minority groups.” Read more about Mary Mahoney and the award below and follow the link below to see award recipients.
Mary Eliza Mahoney was the first African American woman to complete nurse’s training in 1879. Born in the Dorchester neighborhood in Boston’s New England Hospital for Women and Children. In 1878, she was admitted to the Hospital’s nursing program. Out of a class of 42, she was one of four to graduate the following year from the rigorous program. She was also one of the first black members of the Nurses Associated Alumnae of the United States and Canada (later renamed the American Nurses Association) and a member of the newly founded National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses, to which she gave the welcome address at the organization’s first annual meeting. In addition to her pioneering accomplishments in nursing, Mahoney is also credited as one of the first women in Boston to register to vote following ratification of the 19th Amendment. The ANA has an award named in her honor that recognizes significant contributions in interracial relationships (from the ANA website).