Silence Is For Fools: How Hazel Johnson Became America’s First Black Womxn General

In a previous article on <a href="https://medium.com/afrosapiophile/without-naomi-sims-there-would-be-no-naomi-campbell-bd2266b48e1d" rel="noopener">Naomi Sims</a>, I talked about how in 1948, activist and union organizer A. Phillip Randolph told President Harry Truman that Black Americans would not continue to serve in a segregated U.S. Army. Staring down the barrel, Truman signed <a href="https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/executive-order-9981.htm#:~:text=On%20July%2026%2C%201948%2C%20President,desegregation%20of%20the%20U.S.%20military." rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Executive Order 9981</a>, officially integrating all branches of the Armed Forces. One year prior to this historic event, a young womxn named Hazel Johnson enrolled in the Harlem Hospital School of Nursing. Although no one knew it at the time, Johnson would go on to become one of the most decorated female officers in history, and eventually, change the face of nursing as we know it. <a href="https://zora.medium.com/silence-is-for-fools-how-hazel-johnson-became-americas-first-black-womxn-general-5aa7321d7245">Click Here</a>