Shirley Nathan-Pulliam trailblazing Jamaican nurse turned politician was celebrated with her name on a University of Maryland School of Nursing building
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histories are invaluable as well as things like the afro archive especially considering that the white press did not cover the black community at all. which is disgraceful, but a sign of those times. but in trying to develop to put those times in context in the new century, there are only so many chances you have to talk to people. people get old. they suffer from dementia. they die. there are people you can t talk to anymore about what it was like in the 40s or what it was like running, you know, running a candidate against the pollak machine in the 50s. i was lucky must have to hold on to my own notes from years ago talking to people. talking to people like harry cole, mr. adams. but it is astonishing to me how well, i ll just say i m not sure i m making my point here, but i m trying to underscore the importance of in answering that question just to me how important it is just as a reader and trying to understand where we are now based on what we ve seen in the past