About This Book
When Mary Ellis and Julie, two young black women in NY in the 50s, take exams to enter nursing school, they do so well that they are invited to be the first "colored" students at a prestigious upstate school. The story describes the challenges they and their white classmates experience during nursing school and how they master these challenges before "capping day."
TO BE A NURSE
Mary Ellis Stebbins had always dream that one day she would take her nurses' training at Jefferson, the all-Negro school in New York's Harlem.
But instead, she had her friend, Julia Saunders, are offered the opportunity to attend Woodycrest, a private nursing school which has opened its doors to Negro students.
Both Mary Ellis and Julia have a big decision to make, but no one is greatly surprised when they eventually decide to got to Woodycrest.
TO BE A NURSE
Mary Ellis Stebbins had always dream that one day she would take her nurses' training at Jefferson, the all-Negro school in New York's Harlem.
But instead, she had her friend, Julia Saunders, are offered the opportunity to attend Woodycrest, a private nursing school which has opened its doors to Negro students.
Both Mary Ellis and Julia have a big decision to make, but no one is greatly surprised when they eventually decide to got to Woodycrest.