Answering call for volunteer nurses aides. Part of the "uncapped" class taking the volunteer nurses aides course at Freedmen's Hospital, Washington, D.C. First row, left to right: Mrs. Dora Boston, Mrs. Mattie Sparkman, Mrs. John Gill, Mrs. Mary Garrigher, Mrs. Thomas Couch and Mrs. Ethel Washington; Second row: Mrs. Samontha Dawkins, Mrs. Maxine Jackson, Mrs. Hattie Lipscomb, Mrs. Zelhonia Applewhite and Mrs. Mary F. Anderson; Third row: Miss Romay Johnson, Mrs. Mary Hobson, Mrs. Estelle Cloggette, Mrs. Edna Janifer and Mrs. Ruby Lee Bates