After Franklin D. Roosevelt passed Executive Order 8802, black men and women were allowed to serve heroically in World War II. In June 1943, a Congresswoman from Ohio named Frances Payne Bolton developed an amendment to the Nurse Training Bill which essentially barred racial bias. As a result, approximately 2,000 blacks were enrolled in the Cadet Nurse Corps. In July 1944, the quota for black Army Nurses was abolished, leading to approximately more than 500 black army nurses serves stateside and overseas during World War II. On January 25, 1945, the Navy dismissed their color ban leading to Phyllis Daley becoming the first black commissioned nurse on March 9. In the modern times, women have continued to face gender inequality as well as racial
