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The Black Angels
Author | : Maria Smilios |
Publsiher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 457 |
Release | : 2023-09-19 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780593544938 |
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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, began quitting en masse. 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 an isolated hilltop in the remote borough of Staten Island, yet again confronting racism and consigned to a woefully understaffed sanatorium, dubbed “the pest house,” where it was said that “no one left alive.” Spanning the Great Depression and moving through World War II and beyond, this remarkable true story follows the intrepid young women known by their patients as the “Black Angels.” For twenty years, they risked their lives working under appalling conditions while caring for New York’s poorest residents, who languished in wards, waiting to die, or became guinea pigs for experimental surgeries and often deadly drugs. But despite their major role in desegregating the New York City hospital system—and their vital work in helping to find the cure for tuberculosis at Sea View—these nurses were completely erased from history. The Black Angels recovers the voices of these extraordinary women and puts them at the center of this riveting story, celebrating their legacy and spirit of survival.
Black Angels
Author | : Linda Beatrice Brown |
Publsiher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2009-09-17 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781101133811 |
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The compelling story of three young orphans who must survive on their own during the Civil War. It?s near the end of the war, and rumors of emancipation are swirling. Eleven-year-old Luke decides to run away to freedom and join the Union Army. But he doesn?t find the Yankee troops he was hoping for. Instead, he finds nine-year-old Daylily, lost in the woods after suffering an unspeakable tragedy. Her master set her free, but freedom so far has her scared and alone. Also lost in the woods is seven-year-old Caswell, the son of a plantation owner. He was only trying to find his Mamadear after the Yankees burned their house with all their fine things. He wanted to be brave. But alone in the woods with two slave children, he quickly loses all his courage, and comes to greatly depend upon his new friends. In the chaos and violence that follows, the three unrelated children discover a bond in each other stronger than family. A touching, beautifully written narrative, Black Angels is a riveting, special read.
The Black Angels
Author | : Sterling Hobbs |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : 0870673998 |
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The Black Angels
Author | : Rupert Butler |
Publsiher | : Pen and Sword |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2003-02-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780850529685 |
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In Nazi Germany the SS was an instrument of terror and repression. This powerful spearhead was known as the Waffen-SS. A hand-picked elite of magnificent fighting men whose courage was outstanding, but also a force of cruel fanatics capable of hideous atrocities against all accepted rules of warfare. This detailed history looks at both faces of the SS formations, giving a vivid picture of the diabolical architects of the world's most terrible private army.
Sensible Hare and the Case of Carrots
Author | : Daren King |
Publsiher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0399250387 |
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When Mazy Rabbit arrives at the Hare Detective Agency, she asks Sensible Hare to find her missing suitcase of carrots.
Counting the Black Angels
Author | : Len Roberts |
Publsiher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : American poetry |
ISBN | : 0252063813 |
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"Len Roberts is a poet of unwavering truthfulness and unwavering mercy," commented Sharon Olds about Black Wings, a 1988 National Poetry Series selection. Counting the Black Angels, Roberts's eighth book of poetry, is a piercingly painful and redemptive work in which he probes memories of a violent family history and his covenants with God and the "Black Angels." "Roberts's new work is among the most intelligent, moving, and expressive poetry now being written." -- Hayden Carruth
Black Wings Blind Angels
Author | : Sapphire |
Publsiher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2000-09-12 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9780679767312 |
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With fierce candor and an unflinching eye, the highly praised author of Push journeys through the harsh realities of African American existence to find the "door to the possibility of now." The heroes that emerge from these forty-seven vigorous poems confront the agony of betrayal as they strive in their quest for self-transformation and redemption. From the city streets to the rich landscape of dreams, each of these poems holds out the "black wings of expectation" offering the chance to emerge from the pain of the past and arrive at "the day you have been waiting for/when you would finally begin to live." At turns alarming and inspiring, the raw lyrics and piercing wisdom of Black Wings & Blind Angels remind us of Sapphire's place as a unique and fearless voice.
Black Angel Cards
Author | : Zenju Earthlyn Manuel |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2013-04-19 |
Genre | : African American women |
ISBN | : 0972283323 |
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