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Eugenia Broughton, an African American nurse midwife, likely at the Penn Center, St. Helena Island, South Carolina, c. 1950's, National Library of Medicine.
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1media/nlm_nlmuid-101442050-img.jpg2022-12-05T20:43:50+00:00Nursing Beyond the Hospital18plain2022-12-14T18:58:56+00:00 Black nurses have always played a large role in public health work, often reaching communities who otherwise had no access to healthcare. Learn more about their stories, both in the early decades of the nursing profession and in more recent years in the following pages.