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Staupers fought for the inclusion of black nurses in World War II to the Army and Navy as the executive secretary of National Association of Graduate Colored Nurses (NAGCN). She continued fighting not only for quotas, but for the full inclusion of nurses of all races, which was granted in January 1945. In 1948, the American Nursing Association followed suit and allowed African-American nurses to become members. In 1950, Staupers dissolved the NAGCN because she believed the organization had done all it was meant to do.

Mary Mahoney Award
The organization established the Mary Mahoney Award in 1936 to honor African American women in nursing, naming the award after one of its founders, the first African American woman to receive a degree in nursing in the United States.