The Black Angels: The Untold Stories of the Nurses who helped Cure Tuberculosis

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Imprint: An Oprah Book
Nonfiction, Paperback
Publisher: Macmillan Publishers

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    The Black Angels: The Untold Stories of the Nurses who helped Cure Tuberculosis, which tells the story of 300 black nurses who, in 1929, helped prevent a public health crisis in New York after white nurses staged a walk out at Staten Island’s 2000-bed TB sanatorium.
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