The Black Angels History a ransom note for five

a ransom note for five million dollars left in its place

Watching Jane’s back

" —Pat Neely

Richly illustrated with images of the portraits

called “one of the poetry stars of his generation” (Los Angeles Times)

The Black Angels History a ransom note for fiveNew York City, 1929. A sanatorium, a deadly disease, and a dire nurse shortage. So begins the remarkable true story of the Black nurses who helped cure one of the worlds deadliest plagues: tuberculosis. During those dark pre antibiotic days, when tuberculosis killed one in seven people, white nurses at Sea View, New Yorks largest municipal hospital, began quitting. Desperate to avert a public health crisis, city officials summoned Black southern