Esther McCready, first African American student at U-Md. nursing school, dies at 89

Esther E. McCready, who helped open segregated professional and graduate schools to African Americans when she won a court victory in 1950 to become the first Black student admitted to the University of Maryland School of Nursing, died Sept. 2 at a hospital in Randallstown, Md. She was 89.

The cause was a blood-borne infection, said a niece, Colletha Massey.