By the end of the 19th century, formal nurse training programs afforded women a pathway into higher education. Yet from the beginning, nursing education was based on racialized exclusionary policies. During the Jim Crow Era, the Medical College of Virginia (MCV) opened St. Philip Hospital and School of Nursing in 1920 as a segregated institution to provide care for Richmond’s Black community and to prepare Black nurses. For over four decades, St. Philip School of Nursing served as a premier training program for Black women across the United States. Virginia was also the site of massive resistance in the 1950s and continued to maintain racialized segregation in education. Black students remained barred from MCV’s School of Nursing until 1957. This form of professional marginalization and exclusion were costly for nurses, patients, and the community at large. Black nurses were at the center of health and community activism. Nursing was more than a vocational calling, it was also a form of self-actualization, agency, and resistance. Historical accounts rarely center Black nurses’ voices, experiences or contributions in healthcare. This Living Legacies event, moderated by Tori Tucker, RN, PhD, with VCU Health, features two St. Philip alumnae who will share their stories, insider anecdotes, and the importance of remembering the history of St. Philip Hospital and School of Nursing.