Mabel Keaton Staupers
❤ ❤ R.N.❤ ❤
Background
Born: February 27, 1890, Barbados,West Indies
Died: November 29, 1989, Washington, D.C.
When she turned thirteen, she moved to the United States with her parents, Pauline and Thomas Doyle.In 1917 Doyle married James Max Keaton, a marriage that ended in divorce. She got married again in 1931, Staupers married Fritz C. Staupers, a marriage that lasted until his death in 1949.
College/Degrees
- After gaining U.S. Citizenship in 1917, Doyle received her R.N. diploma from the Freedmen’s Hospital School of Nursing in Washington, D.C.
- Mabel also graduated with honors
Career & Contributions
- In 1934 Mabel became the first Executive director of the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses (NAGN), where she served until she became the organization’s president in 1949
- From 1922 to 1934, she was employed first as a surveyor of health needs and later as executive secretary for the Harlem Tuberculosis Committee.
- She worked as a private duty nurse
Goals
- Staupers became an advocate for racial equality in the nursing profession.
- Help black nurses gain full membership into state and national nursing organizations
- Improved the status for black nurses
- Promoted better health care for African Americans
Mabel Keaton Staupers
In 1920 she helped two physicians establish the first hospital in Harlem to treat blacks with tuberculosis.
Harlem Hospital Nurses Residence in 1947.
Mabel Keaton Staupers displays the Mary Mahony Award for distinguished service in nursing to a group of nurses at the Harlem Hospital Nurses Residence in 1947
Mabel was awarded the Spingarn Medal
In 1951Mabel was awarded the Spingarn Medal from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
Work Outside Of Nursing
She published her autobiography, No Time for Prejudice: A Story of the Integration of Negroes in Nursing in the United States, in 1961.