1949

North Carolina’s State Association of Negro Registered Nurses dissolves itself voluntarily after agreeing on “merger” with the North Carolina State Nurses Association (founded in 1902). The merger presented no immediate threat to white supremacy and Jim Crow laws; it included the high $13 NCSNA dues to impede black membership and a new organizational structure that planned education presentations in desegregated venues but social gatherings in those that prohibited African American clients” (D’Antonio, 155). Two years earlier, in 1947, the NCSNA quietly removed “white” from its by-laws; “It had no choice because it had to comply with federal regulations if the association were to represent nurses as a collective bargaining unit” (150).