Three African American nurses of the 20th century are remembered in the nursing field as (1) the first African American to graduate from an American School of nursing; (2) one of the few African Americans members of her high school class to graduate and one of the first people to campaign for racial equality in nursing; and (3) the only black woman in her nursing class of thirty to graduate.

I attended church service on Christmas Eve morning at Alfred Street Baptist Church in Alexandria, Virginia. The pastor’s sermon was from Luke 2:1-20; quoting specifically from Luke 2:19 “But Mary treasured up all these things, pondering them in her heart.”