Black Angels - 3818

'Black Angels' tells the true story of 300 black nurses who changed the course of history, beginning in 1929 when white nurses staged a walk out at Staten Island's 2000-bed TB sanatorium, threatening New York with a public health catastrophe. City health officials made a radical decision to sanction a national call for 'colored nurses'. Lured by the promise of good pay, education, housing and most of all, a rare opportunity to work in a hospital free of quotas and segregated wards, 'Black Angels' from all over the country boarded trains and buses to enter wards that held both hope and danger. Their triumphant story, bringing together medicine, politics, racial strife, women's rights and cutting-edge science, has up until now been almost completely ignored. Deeply researched and told with intimacy and exquisite detail, Black Angels captures the beauty and drama of science, sickness, and the fight for equality. Maria Smilios puts the tenacious young women who prevailed under impossible circumstances at the centre of this story, showing us how the human spirit and its will to survive can ultimately change the course of history.
ASIN: 0349009287
VSKU: PKV.0349009287.G
Condition: Good
Author/Artist:Smilios, Maria
Binding: Paperback