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The Black Angels : the untold story of the nurses who helped cure tuberculosis.

Smilios, Maria

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Summary: "During those dark pre-antibiotic days, when tuberculosis killed one in seven people, white nurses at Sea View, New York's largest municipal hospital, began quitting. Desperate to avert a public health crisis, city officials summoned Black southern nurses, luring them with promises of good pay, a career, and an escape from the strictures of Jim Crow. But after arriving, they found themselves on...

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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2023

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Speak up, speak out! : the extraordinary life of "fighting Shirley Chisholm"

Bolden, Tonya

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Summary: "A biography of Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman elected to the House of Representatives and the first Black woman to run for president with a major political party"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 CHI

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