Mabel Staupers
place a picture here	Mabel K. Staupers was an African-American nurse who worked tirelessly for the integration of nurses into the armed forces of the United States. She was born Mabel Doyle on Feb.27, 1890 in Barbados, West Indies. She then moved with her parents, Tomas and Pauline Doyle, to New York in 1903 where they lived in Harlem. In 1914 she went to Washington D.C., and went to a University called Freeman's Hospital School of Nursing.      She was there for three years, then graduated. She returned to New York and started working as a private-duty nurse, from 1917-1920. In 1917, she married James Max Keaton, but later divorced. Mabel K. Staupers helped Louis T. Wright and James Wilson organize a hospital called Booker T. Washington Sanitarium that helped African-Americans with tuberculosis, which is a contagious disease. She became director of nursing for a year, and then became superintendent of the nurses at Mudget Hospital in Philadelphia.      In 1922, she returned to New York and worked for a group called the New York Tuberculosis and Health Association. She became secretary and worked twelve years there. Then, she went to the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses, (NACGN). She later became president of that group. In 1931. She married Fritz C. Staupers, but he died in 1949. During World War II, she worked to give rights to black nurses to work in the Navy Nurse Corps. After a broadcast with Franklin D. Roosevelt, she told black and white nurses, women's group, and political leaders to send letters and telegrams to the president to let black nurses work in the Army and Navy. With a lot of hard work and perseverance, she made that happen on January 20, 1945. Six years later, in 1951, she received the NAACP's Spingarn Metal. The NAACP stands for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Ten years later, in 1961, she published her autobiography, No Time For Prejudice: A Story of the Integration of Negros in Nursing in the United States. On Nov.29, 1989, she died in Washington D.C. Mabel Keaton Staupers was a very important person because she helped change  history making our world a better, kinder place to live.