File:Gravesite of U.S. Army Nurse Namah Curtis in Section 21.jpg

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English: Gravesite of U.S. Army Nurse Namah Curtis in Section 21 of Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va., Feb. 8, 2022. During the Spanish-American War (1898), the Surgeon

General assigned Curtis—a prominent African American nurse in Washington, D.C.—to recruit other Black women to serve as U.S. Army contract nurses. Curtis was of African American, European and American Indian descent, and she was married to Dr. Austin Curtis, a leading

Black physician in D.C. (U.S. Army photo by Elizabeth Fraser / Arlington National Cemetery / released)
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This image was originally posted to Flickr by Arlington National Cemetery at https://flickr.com/photos/60564189@N06/51870322183. It was reviewed on 17 January 2024 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the Public Domain Mark.

17 January 2024

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This file is a work of a U.S. Army soldier or employee, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, it is in the public domain in the United States.

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