In 1948, she became the first Black woman in the regular Army Nurse Corps. She later served in Vietnam with the Air Force.

Colon, the first African American commissioned into the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after it was desegregated in the 1940s, died ...

A public square in Georgia's oldest city has been renamed after a black woman who played a major role in the US Civil ... nurse, an educator and the only black woman to write a memoir of the war.