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The Black Angels: When Death Loomed Over NYC

The Black Angels: When Death Loomed Over NYC

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In the early decades of the twentieth century, tuberculosis was a shadow that loomed over New York City. Amid segregation and discrimination in American health care, a group of black nurses at New York’s Sea View Hospital rose to the occasion. Follow us on Instagram: @watchhercookpodcast Sources: The Underground Railroad | Short History Of... | Noiser History Podcasts Tuberculosis Virginia Allen, one of the last surviving “Black Angels”, is Graduation Keynote Speaker | NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing The ‘Black Angels’ who helped cure tuberculosis - The Emancipator (The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis by Maria Smilios) The Heroic Black Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis | Scientific American "Racial and Religious Democracy": Identity and Equality in Midcentury Courts by Elizabeth D. Katz :: SSRN Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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