[1] Harmon attended Episcopal schools and Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia, and qualified as a registered nurse in 1929.
[4][6] Shortly after graduation she left Georgia for Illinois and was hired as a nurse by Wilson Hospital in Chicago.
After the divorce Harmon continued to work as nurse, this time for practicing doctors, and attended the Loyola University.
[4][9] In 1933[10] Janet (then Waterford) enrolled at Curtiss Wright Aeronautical University,[11] a segregated black aviation school managed by John C. Robinson and Cornelius Coffey.
[7][10] Bragg was involved in the inception of the National Association of American Airmen, designed to represent the nascent profession to the government.