 She also successfully paved the way for African Americans to be accepted in the U.S. military as well as other educational, institutional, and organizational structures.Staupers was born on February 27, 1890, in Barbados, West Indies.In 1903, at the age of thirteen, she emigrated to the United States, Harlem, New York, with her parents, Pauline and Thomas Doyle and received American citizenship in 1917.