How Black Nurses Were Recruited to Staten Island to Fight a Deadly Disease

Many old buildings at a New York City hospital are in ruins, but it played a key role in the battle against tuberculosis, which killed 5.6 million people in the U.S. in the first half of the 20th century.

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