The Black Angels

Author : Maria Smilios
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593544935
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Black Angels written by Maria Smilios and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-09-19 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Sterling Hobbs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780870673993
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Black Angels written by Sterling Hobbs and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Daren King
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780399250385
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sensible Hare and the Case of Carrots written by Daren King and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Mazy Rabbit arrives at the Hare Detective Agency, she asks Sensible Hare to find her missing suitcase of carrots.

Author : Linda Beatrice Brown
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101133813
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Angels written by Linda Beatrice Brown and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-09-17 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Rupert Butler
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 0850529689
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Black Angels written by Rupert Butler and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2003-02-13 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Kristen Orlando
Publisher : Swoon Reads
ISBN 13 : 1250123615
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book You Won't Know I'm Gone written by Kristen Orlando and published by Swoon Reads. This book was released on 2018-01-16 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reagan has to prove herself to an elite group of special agents--and avenge her mother's death--in the second book in the Black Angel Chronicles, the follow-up to "You Don't Know My Name."

Author : Ben Graham
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782790934
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Gathering of Promises written by Ben Graham and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Gathering of Promises is a history of acid rock and psychedelic music in and from the state of Texas, focusing largely on its mid-1960s origins with the 13th Floor Elevators and contemporaries such as the Golden Dawn, the Red Crayola and Bubble Puppy, and following its development to the present day and the popularity of the annual Austin Psych Fest. Grounded in a strong social, cultural and historical context, the book asks how Texas produced some of the most extreme and influential psych of any era despite a prevailing social ethos of Christian conservatism and the strictest drug laws of any American state. It looks at how this environment shaped and affected the music, alongside the Texan frontier spirit and its championing of expansion, freedom and individualism.

Author : Linda Beatrice Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rainbow Roun Mah Shoulder written by Linda Beatrice Brown and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The odyssey of a Black woman in the South in the early 1900s as she discovers in herself a power and becomes a healer.

Author : Sapphire
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0679767312
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Wings & Blind Angels written by Sapphire and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2000-09-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Zenju Earthlyn Manuel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780972283328
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Angel Cards written by Zenju Earthlyn Manuel and published by . This book was released on 2013-04-19 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: