Ruth Hartley Mosley
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| Born | Ruth Price September 23, 1886 |
| Died | August 14, 1975(aged 88) Savannah, Georgia |
| Resting place | Linwood Cemetery |
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Ruth Price Hartley Mosley(September23, 1886 – August14, 1975) was an Americannurse,businesswoman, and civil rights activist. In 1910, she became the first black woman to be the head of a nursing department.[1]Mosley was also one of the first women to be licensed as anembalmer.
Ruth Price was born on September23, 1886 inSavannah, Georgia;her father was a bootmaker and her mother was a dressmaker.[2][3]After finishing high school, Mosley studied nursing inConcord, North Carolinaand atProvident HospitalinChicago.She went on to work at theGeorgia State SanitariuminMilledgeville,where she was appointed head of the "Colored Females Department" in 1910.[4]
After she married Richard Hartley in 1917, the couple moved to Macon, where Mosley became one of the first women to be a licensed embalmer in order to help him with his work running a newly purchased funeral home — Hartley's saloon had been forced to close due to theVolstead Act.[4]After Hartley's death on October1, 1931, she married Fischer Mosley in 1937 and worked as a nurse for theBibb Countyschool system. At one point, she owned over 100 rental properties.[5]Fischer died on May12, 1975.[6]
Mosley was part of Macon'sNAACPchapter, and was a founding member of the Booker T. Washington Community Center. She also enjoyed playingbridge.[3]
Mosley died in Savannah on August 14, 1975.[7]She left money to establish the Ruth Hartley Mosley Memorial Fund and the Ruth Hartley Mosley Memorial Women's Center.[5][8]Mosley was added to theGeorgia Women of Achievementin 1994.[4][5]
References
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- ^Thomas Jr., Clarence W. (May 2022)."Black places and spaces: InTown's proud legacy as a center of Black culture".Macon Magazine.Retrieved3 June2024.
- ^abHopkins, Emily (February 4, 2016)."Ruth Hartley Mosley Memorial Women's Center".Historic Macon Foundation.
- ^abc"Ruth Hartley Mosley".Ruth Hartley Mosley Center. Archived fromthe originalon 2017-06-19.Retrieved3 June2024.
- ^abcBrown, Oby (September 6, 2019)."'You are as good as anyone'".Historic Macon Foundation.
- ^Allen, James W."Ruth Price Hartley Mosley".USGW Archives.Retrieved3 June2024.
- ^Macon's Black Heritage: The Untold Story.The Tubman African American Museum. 1997.
- ^Dunlap, Stanley (December 29, 2016)."Women's center in Macon paved way for many".Macon Telegraph.Retrieved3 June2024.