Inside a display case at the is a nursing cap.
The cap belongs to Curlene Jennings Bennett, who wore it during her time at the Bellevue School of Nursing. After graduation in 1957, she worked at Sea View Hospital, which opened more than 40 years earlier to take care of patients with the deadly disease called tuberculosis.
“They had maybe one nurse for a whole ward, and I had been used to that, because Bellevue, you had to work hard at Bellevue, so I didn’t mind that,” said Jennings Bennett, whose story is just one of those told in an exhibition at the museum called “Taking Care: The Black Angels of
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