Brigadier General Hazel Johnson-Brown (From the AMSN Blog)
Nurses Week Spotlight
Brigadier General Hazel Johnson-Brown was born on October 10, 1927, in West Chester, Pennsylvania as Hazel Johnson. She became interested in nursing at a young age and applied to nursing school when she became an adult.
However, her application to Chester County Hospital School of Nursing was denied because she was black.
In 2004 Johnson-Brown told National Public Radio, “The director of nursing met us [Johnson-Brown and her sister] and said to her and myself, ‘We’ve never had a black person in our program, and we never will.’”