https://www.boston.gov/news/activism-black-and-white-mary-eliza-mahoney-pathbreaking-nurse-and-voter Summarize this article please and thank yu!!
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Mary Eliza Mahoney registered to vote in Boston's 13th Ward on August 18, 1920, the same day Tennessee ratified the Woman Suffrage Amendment to the United States Constitution. Her electoral register lists her pioneering occupation: "educated nurse". Mahoney was not only among the first generation of professional nurses in the United States, but also the first black woman to graduate from a nursing program in the United States. Born in the West End in 1845, Mary Eliza Mahoney completed her studies at the New England Hospital for Women and Children in Boston. By the time the hospital opened its nursing certificate program in 1872, Mahoney had been there for several years. Certification from New England Hospital allowed her to earn a higher salary and more respect as a nurse in private practice. Mahoney became one of the few black members of the union in its early years. Aware of continuing racial segregation and other barriers against black women in nursing, Mahoney became a founding member of the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses in 1908. She directed and inspired the work of the organization: "to advance the standards and interests of educated nurses, to break down discrimination in the nursing profession, and to develop the leadership of black nurses." When Mahoney was diagnosed with breast cancer, she sought treatment at the same hospital where she trained as a nurse. Black women and men in many states could not exercise their right to vote any longer than that. She is a member of the National Women's Hall of Fame and has been the subject of numerous articles, including a long-awaited obituary published in 2022 as part of the New York Times' "Overlooked" series. The Mary Eliza Mahoney Medal, first awarded by the NACGN in 1936, annually honors a nurse for outstanding contributions to the profession. There are many reasons why we chose Mary Eliza Mahoney as the namesake for our 1920 women's voter registration transcript project. He was also in many ways an average person; Like most individuals in our database, she was a working woman who valued her privacy and left very little historical information about her life.
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