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Booker T. Washington: “We had a monopoly of the nursing business for many years, and up to a short time ago it was the common opinion that…”

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We had a monopoly of the nursing business for many years, and up to a short time ago it was the common opinion that nobody could nurse but one of those old black mammies.
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Booker T. Washington

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Washington reflects on the historical role of African American women as nurses in the South.

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