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Episode: Career Talk: Dr. Virginia Allen on the Black Angels and the Tuberculosis Pandemic
Description: During the peak of the Tuberculosis pandemic, white nurses at Sea View Hospital in Staten Island, New York quit because they refused to care for Tuberculosis patients. As a result, the hospital recruited over 300 Black nurses throughout the country. As a result of their heroic act, these nurses were called the Black Angels. Ruben Britt speaks with one of the last living Black Angels, Dr. Virginia Allen.