Newspaper article announcing the establishment, in 1952, of the Jackson P. Burley High School Licensed Practical Nurses Program, in collaboration with the University of Virginia Hospital. Although Black women were racially excluded from the UVA School of Nursing, this new LPN program was open to Black women, who completed their studies at Jackson P. Burley School and practiced at the University of Virginia Hospital. Because of the segregationist and exclusionary practices in nursing education and health care, Black women who wanted to pursue careers in nursing in the early 1950s had, in general, three options available to them: apply to a licensed practice nursing program, a historically Black professional nursing program, or apply to a nursing school that accepted Black students under the restriction of quotas. The Burley-UVA Hospital LPN program was thus an important way for Black women in Charlottesville and Albemarle County to enter the field of nursing.
1953 - April 4th
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