Racial Nurse Bars Charged

Title

Racial Nurse Bars Charged

Subject

Nursing African Americans Women's International League for Peace and Freedom Harris, Helen M. Smith, Tom King County Hospital Smith, Harriet H. Red Cross Providence Hospital Columbus Hospital Seattle General Hospital

Description

An article in a local newspaper reported that Negro (sic), as blacks were called then, candidates for nursing were being discriminated against by local hospitals and that none were being accepted for training.

Date

04/00/42

Type

RD 0 _ R13

Identifier

1900.5928

Collection