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.

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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

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