Lois Faye May1940-2014American nurse who was in the first integrated nursing class at Mercy in the civil rights era
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Lois Faye May1940-2014American nurse who was in the first integrated nursing class at Mercy in the civil rights era

Roger Evans Assistant editor, Nursing Standard

The American African-Caribbean nurse Lois Faye May, who has died at the age of 74, was in the first fully integrated class at Mercy Nursing School in Oklahoma from 1958 to 1961, at the height of the civil rights movement.

Nursing Standard. 28, 28, 34-34. doi: 10.7748/ns2014.03.28.28.34.s50

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