| LC control no. | n 50024303 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Staupers, Mabel Keaton, 1890-1989 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Associated place | New York (N.Y.) |
| Located | Washington (D.C.) Philadelphia (Pa.) |
| Birth date | 1890-02-27 |
| Death date | 1989-11-29 |
| Place of birth | Barbados |
| Affiliation | National Council of Negro Women Henry Phipps Institute |
| Profession or occupation | Nurses Civil rights workers |
| Found in | Her No time for prejudice, 1961. NUCMC data from National Archives for Black Women's History for Her Papers, 1943-1983 (Staupers, Mabel Keaton; African American nurse, of NYC; d. 1989) Wikipedia, 16 Aug. 2013 (Mabel Keaton Staupers; b. 27 Feb. 1890 in Barbados; d. 29 Nov. 1989; advocate for racial equality in the nursing profession) Information from 678 field, converted June 14, 2014 (R.N.) African American women, 1993: pages 476-477 (Mabel (Doyle, Keaton) Staupers, born in Barbados and moved to the United States at age 13 in 1903. Became a naturalized citizen in 1917. Graduated from Freedman's Hospital School of Nursing in Washington, D.C. in 1917 and from Henry Phipps Institute in Philadelphia in 1920. Worked as a nurse in New York City, Washington, DC and Philadelphia. Sought to increase the number of black women in nursing, including commissioining black nurses into the armed forces during World War II. Founding member of the National Council of Negro Women in 1935. Died in Washington DC in 1989.) |
| Associated language | eng |
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