Shoots, Jean.

Jean McDonald Shoots, an African-American nurse, volunteer, writer, and performer, was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on April 12, 1926. During the Depression, she lived with her family in a tent community in Dennison, Iowa, where men were constructing buildings for the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC).

As a girl, Jean Shoots and her sisters performed in their own radio show in Marshalltown, Iowa. After receiving her degree in registered nursing from Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn, New York, Shoots spent most of her career as a registered nurse for the Veterans' Hospital and the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City.

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