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COLLEGE
CU's First Black
Nurse Defied
Racism, Withstood
Disease and
Made History
Serving Others
WITH NO ROLE MODEL, " ZIPPY " PARKS
HAMMOND FEARLESSLY BLAZED NEW TRAILS
FOR MINORITY COMMUNITIES THEN AND
TODAY By Deborah Mandeville

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eventeen years before Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr. inspired masses in Washington
with his speech, " I Have a Dream, "
a young Black woman nicknamed
Zippy in Denver was already living her
dream. In 1946, 'Zippy' Zipporah Parks
Hammond became the first Black woman to graduate
with a bachelor of science degree from the University
of Colorado School of Nursing. She went on to join
the war effort as a nurse, tend to minority children
with polio, contract tuberculosis, document African
American history, raise a family, and become the
first Black woman director of medical records at a
hospital in Colorado. Every dream was hard-fought.
From all accounts, Zippy accomplished them with
grace and dignity.

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