Carrie Marie Sharp

1881-1967
Freedmen's Hospital School of Nursing,
Washington, D.C., 1903

• Founder and first President of the State Association of Colored Graduate Nurses, later Old Dominion Graduate Nurses Association
• President of the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses
• One of the first African American nurses enrolled in the American Red Cross
• Lifelong advocate for children as a school nurse and Girl Scout leader in Petersburg, VA

Carrie Marie Sharp, an active member of the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses, called a meeting in Petersburg, Virginia on April 11, 1916 to organize the State Association of Colored Graduate Nurses, later the Old Dominion Graduate Nurses Association. Her career in nursing was devoted to her work as a school nurse in Petersburg, VA. She is remembered with respect and affection by the women who were in the Girl Scout Troop she led.

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"Miss Sharp is one of the best known school nurses in Virginia."

Adah Belle Samuels Thoms, The Pathfinders, 1929