The Voice of the Black Community
Black History
| Remembering Charlotte’s Good Samaritan Hospital |
| Monday, March 11, 2019 |
| When Charlotte’s Good Samaritan Hospital was built in 1891, no one wanted to go. “Everybody went over there died,” said Thereasea Clark Elder, 92, a former public health nurse who worked at Good Samaritan for 14 years. “When I was young, I used to see people in the community caring for the sick; they didn’t go to the |
| America's first black nurse |
| Monday, March 4, 2019 |
| Mary Eliza Mahoney was the first African-American to study and work professionally as a nurse in the United States. Aside from being in the medical field for almost 40 years, she was also an advocate of women's rights. Born in 1845 in Boston, Mahoney always knew she wanted to be a nurse. She worked at the New England Hospital for Women and Children, a |
