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grllopez ~ with freedom and books (with_freedom_and_books) | 140 comments In the late 1880s, Chicago hospitals had a racist problem with serving blacks in the community. There also was nowhere to train blacks who wanted to get into the medical field. So the black community built their own hospital to train black nurses and medical staff and serve the populace. They even had a local black minister bless the hospital. And Langston Hughes wrote a snappy poem to praise the work done at the school: the sights and sounds of the corridors and work stations; healing all the typical injuries and conditions that came their way. And that's the way you do it. Rise to the occasion!


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