July 12, 2022
Limited opportunities at home kept many Black Bermudian RNs overseas, even after 1958 when racial barriers were lifted. Lincoln graduate Mary Tucker Mynns became a supervisor at Lincoln Hospital. Cora Williams Nicholson, a 1921 graduate of Frederick Douglass Nursing School in Philadelphia, spent her whole…Read more
July 12, 2022
Mary Seon was the first Black Bermudian to become an RN. She graduated from Provident Medical College and Hospital Nursing School in Chicago in 1895. Mabel White, who qualified at Hampton Training School in Virginia in 1903, was the second. Other US nursing schools beckoned,…Read more
July 12, 2022
The opening of the Bermuda Nursing Home in a house on Montpelier Road, Devonshire around 1904 created training and employment opportunities for Black nurses. The Nursing Home, which moved into larger premises in Middletown, was founded by British military physician Dr. A. G. Pentrieth, Berkeley…Read more
July 12, 2022
Health Care Improvements—and Injustice Black Bermudian women were indispensable to the health care system, despite their second-class status. Notable nurses from history include Eliza Lusher, who cared for yellow fever victims at HM Dockyard in 1853. The more recent past saw lay midwives Susan Lamb,…Read more