Nurses

Kuscsik repeatedly broke down barriers just as women were being allowed to run in marathons.

She co-founded the nation’s first nurse practitioner program at the University of Colorado.

She was the first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after desegregation.

Lurie devoted her days to giving away her fortune, ensuring it went to good causes.

She was also the sister of actress Mia Farrow.

She was the first registered nurse elected to U.S. Congress.

She went on to marry the man in the photo, and they stayed together for 54 years.

Frank wrote about her in her famous diary.

She costarred in the Elvis Presley movie “Girls! Girls! Girls!”

She was an advocate for Native American health.