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• The Black Angels

  the Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis

  Smilios, Maria,

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  New York City, 1929. A sanatorium, a deadly disease, and a dire nursing shortage. In the pre-antibiotic days when tuber­culosis stirred people's darkest fears, killing one in seven, white nurses at Sea View, New York's largest municipal hospital,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Saving Stella

  Notes From a Nurse Turned Legislator

  Nathan-Pulliam, Shirley, 1939-

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  From her childhood in Jamaica to her early days in nursing and, eventually, to her entry into politics, Shirley Nathan-Pulliam has exemplified what it means to translate principles and values into action through legislation and advocacy. Saving…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Soul of Leadership

  Journeys in Leadership Achievement With Distinguished African American..

  Bessent, Hattie

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  This is a new edition of Dr. Hattie Bessent's groundbreaking work, originally published in 2005 by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. The text provides first-person accounts of the lives and motivations of eleven African American nurses of outstanding…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Real Nurses and Others

  Racism in Nursing

  Das Gupta, Tania, 1957-

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  Based on a survey of more than 500 Ontario Nursing Association members, this study demonstrates how racism impacts working relations in the nursing profession. Gender and class concepts are explored as well as how fear, lack of support, management…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• National Conclave of Grady Graduate Nurses Collection, 1917-2003 (bulk 1972-2003)

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  The collection consists of minutes and agendas, scrapbooks, photographs, reports and historical writings, printed material and ephemera, personal papers of individual nurses, books, and artifacts including textiles make up the National Conclave of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Early Black American Leaders in Nursing

  Architects for Integration and Equality

  Davis, Althea T.

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  In celebrating the history of the black nursing experience, the author (a RN and EdD) relates the role model-worthy biographies of three Nursing Hall of Fame women: Mary Eliza Mahoney, Martha Minerva Franklin, and Adah Belle Samuels Thoms. Includes…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• African American Medicine in Washington, D.C.

  Healing the Capital During the Civil War Era

  Butts, Heather,

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  The service of America's African Americans in defense of our Union during the Civil War required African American nurses, doctors and surgeons to heal those soldiers. In the nation's capital, these brave healthcare workers joined together to begin…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• African American and Cherokee Nurses in Appalachia

  a History, 1900-1965

  Pollitt, Phoebe,

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  "Few career opportunities were available to minority women in Appalachia in the first half of the 20th century. Nursing offered them a respected, relatively well paid profession and their work was important in challenging healthcare inequities in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Black Women in White

  Racial Conflict and Cooperation in the Nursing Profession, 1890-1950

  Hine, Darlene Clark

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  Black Women in White analyzes the impact of racism on the development of the nursing profession in both the northern and southern US. Traces the growth of a parallel networks of hospitals, training schools, and nurses' association in reaction to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The History of Nursing in North Carolina

  Wyche, Mary Lewis, 1858-1936

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  Old letters, newspapers, library and state records, and personal interviews have contributed to this history. Beginning with the first recorded public care of the sick in the colony, the author discusses the progress of nursing to the time of this…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Trailblazer

  Negro Nurse in the American Red Cross

  Pitrone, Jean Maddern, 1920-2008

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  A biography of the woman whose determination to help relieve the physical pains of her people led her to become the first Negro nurse enrolled by the American Red Cross.

• Raising Brooklyn

  Nannies, Childcare, and Caribbeans Creating Community

  Brown, Tamara Mose

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  Stroll through any public park in Brooklyn on a weekday afternoon and you will see black women with white children at every turn. Many of these women are of Caribbean descent, and they have long been a crucial component of New York's economy,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• East Texas Daughter

  Green, Helen G., 1937-

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  Raised in poverty in Tyler, Texas, Helen Harris Green went on to become the first black woman admitted into a Dallas school of professional nursing, the first black nurse-manager of the Methodist Hospital of Dallas, the first black department…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Divided Sisterhood

  Race, Class, and Gender in the South African Nursing Profession

  Marks, Shula

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  A complex history told with consummate clarity, compassion and poignancy'- A.M.Rafferty, Department of Nursing and Midwifery Studies, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham This book explores the establishment of nursing as a profession for white,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Cultural Context of Therapeutic Choice

  Obstetrical Care Decisions Among the Bariba of Benin

  Sargent, Carolyn Fishel, 1947-

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  This book examines the factors influencing women's choices of obstetrical care in a Bariba community in the People's Republic of Benin, West Africa. When selecting a research topic, I decided to investigate health care among the Bariba for several…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Minority Nurses in the New Century

  Bessent, Hattie

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  Minority Nurses in the New Century , organized into three sections, expands on Dr. Bessent's earlier groundbreaking body of work on the ethnic minority nurses. Dr. Bessent has dedicated her professional career to the inclusion of ethnic minority…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Mary Seacole

  Ramdin, Ron

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  Mary Jane Seacole was a Jamaican nurse and businesswoman. She was famous for her nursing work during the Crimean War and for publishing the first autobiography written by a woman of African descent in Britain. Her work is an inspiration for all…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Trailblazers in Nursing Education

  a Caribbean Perspective, 1946-1986

  Hewitt, Hermi Hyacinth

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  This work documents the contributions that Ruth Nita Barrow, Gertrude Hildegarde Swaby and Julie Symes made in advancing the status of professional nursing education in Jamaica between 1946 and 1986.

• The Diary of Susie King Taylor, Civil War Nurse

  Taylor, Susie King, 1848-1912

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  Excerpts from the diary of a woman who served as nurse to a regiment of black soldiers fighting for the Union during the Civil War, including her observations on the treatment of "coloreds" after the war.

• Nursing Civil Rights

  Gender and Race in the Army Nurse Corps

  Threat, Charissa J., 1976- ,

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  In Nursing Civil Rights , Charissa J. Threat investigates the parallel battles against occupational segregation by African American women and white men in the U.S. Army. As Threat reveals, both groups viewed their circumstances with the Army Nurse…Read moreRead more of this annotation