Image of the Week
Members of the 1927 graduating class of the St. Philip School of Nursing pose on the steps outside the St. Philip Hospital in Richmond. When this segregated hospital was opened in the fall of 1920, the Medical College of Virginia established a separate nurse training program for African-American women. Over the next 42 years, the St. Philip School of Nursing graduated 688 women many of whom went on to have distinguished careers in the profession. This image and others are among the historical materials related to the St. Philip School of Nursing found in Special Collections and Archives at Tompkins-McCaw Library.
--Jodi Koste, Archivist, MCV Campus.