In 1932 Aileen C. Ewell, RN, BA and eleven other well educated professional RNs addressed the problem of racial discrimination among nurses by forming their own nursing sorority, since they could not participate in the mainstream professional sororities and fraternities. Their sorority was chartered October 16, 1932 on the campus of Freedman Hospital, now known as Howard University in Washington, … Continue reading "The Black Nurses Sorority History"
