Martha Lee Burden Bowden, beloved wife, mother, grandmother, aunt, cousin and friend passed away Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2022, at the age of 98. She was born and raised in Sevierville, TN, and was the last surviving child of the late … Continue reading
[The article contains a photograph of the building, but the digitized microfilm version is not clear enough to include here.] The above is a picture of the Negro Unit of the Knoxville General Hospital. This unit was built in 1933 … Continue reading
Tenn. Hospital Personnel Is Rated Equally No Longer a Difference Between Colored, White Physicians, Dentists by Dr. O. B. Taylor Knoxville, Tenn. — (ANP) — Through the efforts of the East Tennessee Hospital association, Negro physicians and dentists have been … Continue reading
Attack Made on Tennessee More Low-Grade Medical Schools than any State Carnegie Foundation Formulates Accusation Some Excuses Made for the Alleged Conditions, but the State Is Charged with Making the Worst use of the Means at Its Command New York, … Continue reading
Hire Five Nurses at Tenn. Hospital Knoxville, Tenn. — (ANP) — Knoxville General hospital, municipally owned, is to have five additional Negro nurses, bringing the total number to nine. Three years ago, by agreement reached between the hospital officials, city … Continue reading
Hospital in Tiff over Shifts by Dr. J. H. Presnell Knoxville, Tenn. — (SNS) — A few days ago an article came out in the daily newspaper stating that forty members of the white staff of the Knoxville General Hospital … Continue reading
Mabel K. Staupers Will Speak Here Local Colored Nurses Will Hear Her Mrs. Mabel K. Staupers, executive secretary of the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses, will come to Knoxville Tuesday, March 5, to address a series of meetings of … Continue reading
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