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A “Tuskegee” for South Carolina
While she was studying at Battle Creek Sanitarium from 1893 to 1896, Jessie Dorsey met Almira S. Steele of Boston, Massachusetts, a humanitarian who was trying to open schools for destitute Black children in the South. At Steele’s invitation, Dorsey went south in June 1896 to work with Elizabeth E. Wright in establishing a school for Back students in South Carolina following the model of Booker T. Washington’s Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, where Wright had studied. Wright had great vision but was frail and sickly. The two women faced a great deal of prejudice against teaching Black children to read, and several of their places were burned down by angry men.
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One retired nurse from Syracuse struggled to find work as a young woman in the 1950s, but never let that stop her from reaching her goals. Meet Essie Dorsey.
What You Need To Know
Essie Dorsey is one of 13 children raised on a farm in Alabama
Good Shepherd Hospital (now Upstate) started a nurses aide training program and Essie jumped at the opportunity
From there, Essie took advantage of any and all opportunities and moved from aide to LPN to R.N. and an additional bachelor s degree in Child and Family