9/10/2023 0 Comments Did mary eliza mahoney get married![]() ![]() Grant cc’d the senatorial committee on the allegations, but the Senate whipped through the approval process with nary a word about Hill’s report and prepared to vote for confirmation of Thomas. ![]() She had, in fact, quit the EEOC because of his behavior and gone into academia. She told Grant that Thomas had harassed her in a sexual and inappropriate manner when she had worked as his assistant at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). Anita Hill, a law professor at the University of Oklahoma, contacted Harriet Grant, the Judiciary Committee’s nominations counsel. The prelude to the media circus took place when the president announced his choice of “Black Horatio Alger” Clarence Thomas as the Supreme Court replacement for the retiring Thurgood Marshall. Senate hearings, usually desert dry and devoid of tabloid titillation, suddenly featured long discussions including the terms “penis” and “pubic hair.” With great dignity, she testified that Thomas kept after her to go out with him, referred to himself as “an individual who had a very large penis and…used a name…in pornographic material,” and asked her to see “this woman has this kind of breasts that measure this size,” in a seemingly endless barrage of ludicrous and lugubrious insults to her as a fellow professional. The nation and, indeed, the world, watched transfixed as the incredibly poised Hill revealed her experiences of Clarence Thomas as a coworker. Prior to Hill’s brave stand, sexual harassment was mainly swept under the industrial gray carpeting of most offices, but she singlehandedly forced it to the very center of the national agenda. The hearings made the issue of sexual harassment in the workplace into the most hotly debated and analyzed topic of the day, one that still reverberates years later. America’s collective mouth hung open in amazement at the brouhaha that brewed up around Judge Thomas’s worthiness based on the charges of sexual harassment by one Anita Hill. Nobody could have guessed that the televised Senate hearings on the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the US Supreme Court would be the top-rated show of 1991. Author Becca Anderson Posted on Categories women Tags American History, Becca Anderson, black history, discrimination, equality, inspiring women, Mary Eliza Mahoney, MJ Fievre, nurses, social change, strength, The Book of Awesome Black Women Leave a comment on Mary Eliza Mahoney: Nursing Equality Anita Hill: We Always Believed You This excerpt is from The Book of Awesome Black Women by Becca Anderson, which is available now through Amazon and Mango Media. ![]() When women were finally allowed the right to vote, she became one of the first women in Massachusetts to register to vote. In retirement, she was an active supporter of women’s rights and supported the suffragist movement. In response, she formed her own organization, the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses, which sought to end discrimination within the nursing profession. When she retired from nursing, she joined the Nurses Associated Alumnae of the United States and Canada in 1896 but found that they weren’t welcoming to Black nurses. She was active in fighting for equal rights for Black nurses, who were treated much differently than their White counterparts, and she also served freed Black people and orphans, providing them with their daily needs and shelter. She specialized in the care of new mothers and newborns and was praised for her efficiency as a nurse. After receiving her diploma, Mahoney went to work as a private duty nurse, mostly for wealthy White families. Mahoney had a prior connection to the hospital, where she had worked as a cook for long sixteen-hour shifts. Schools in the South rejected Black students outright, and schools in the North were not much better at helping Black students matriculate. At the time, it was difficult for Black women to receive training in nursing programs. Out of a class of forty, only she and two White classmates graduated from the rigorous sixteen-month program. At the age of thirty-three Mahoney entered a nursing training program at the New England Hospital for Women and Children. Mary Eliza Mahoney was the first Black woman in the United States to formally study nursing, earn a degree, and practice nursing as a licensed nurse. ![]()
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