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Salaria Kea

1917–1990

United States

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Salaria Kea O'Reilly (13 July 1913 – 18 May 1990) was an American nurse and desegregation activist who volunteered in both the Spanish Civil War and the Second World War. During the Spanish Civil War she was the only African-American nurse working in the Abraham Lincoln Battalion.

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