Opaline Wadkins organized the first school in Oklahoma City to train African American nurses and helped desegregate the University of Oklahoma College of Nursing. Wadkins was born on March 26, 1912, in Carthage, Texas, to Henry and Effie Davereaux. She was the first African American to receive a master's degree in public health at the […]
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