Not only did she achieve that title, but Johnson-Brown would go on to become the first black female general in the U.S. Army in 1979 and the first black chief of the U.S. Army Nurse Corps. Early Life ...

Portrait of Brig. Gen. Anna Mae Hays, chief of the Army Nurse Corps, taken in February 1971 during an interview at Zama Hospital in Japan during a Far East inspection tour that also included stops ...