Salaria Kea O'Reilly was an American nurse and desegregation activist who volunteered in both the Spanish Civil War and the Second World War. She was the only African-American nurse who worked in the Abraham Lincoln Battalion during the Spanish Civil War. O'Reilly was born on July 13, 1917 in Milledgeville, Georgia. Her father was a […]
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