Bellevue Alumnae Center for Nursing History
Limited Edition Nursing Pins
Mabel Keaton Staupers - 1994
Mabel K. Staupers engaged in a life-long struggle to break down color barriers in health care services and the profession of nursing. She developed and coordinated a wide range of services that improved the health care of the citizens of Harlem. During World War II, as Executive Secretary of the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses, she led the movement to gain full integration of Black nurses into the armed forces and the professional nursing organizations. The struggle to achieve recognition, status, and acceptance of Black nurses into the institutional structures of American nursing was significantly advanced because of her leadership.
