Mary Eliza Mahoney1/ Black History Month Tea Towel bynurseinsomniac

trained nurse in the United States.

Ms Mahoney graduated from the New England Hospital for Women and Children Training School for Nurses in 1879. She worked tirelessly to change the way patients and families thought of minority nurses and was inducted into the American Nurses Association Hall of Fame in 1976 and to the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1993.