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Dr. H. M. Green, Early 20th Century Knoxville Physician

KGH School of Nursing Posted on October 29, 2022 by BillieOctober 29, 2022

The information and photos below were excerpted from a lengthy investigative article published by NPR.org — full link is below. When Dr. H.M. Green opened his new medical office building on East Vine Avenue in 1922, Black Knoxville residents could … Continue reading →

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Posted in Minorities & Diversity, Other Hospitals & Clinics | Leave a reply

Martha Lee Burden Bowden, R. N.

KGH School of Nursing Posted on September 1, 2022 by BillieSeptember 1, 2022

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 →

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Posted in KGH Nurses' Biographies, Minorities & Diversity | Leave a reply

KGH’s ‘Negro Unit’ Praised in 1934

KGH School of Nursing Posted on January 25, 2016 by BillieJanuary 25, 2016

[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 →

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Black Doctors, Dentists Receive Equal Privileges at KGH (1942)

KGH School of Nursing Posted on January 24, 2016 by BillieJanuary 24, 2016

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 →

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Carnegie Report Derides Tennessee Medical Schools (1910)

KGH School of Nursing Posted on January 24, 2016 by BillieJanuary 24, 2016

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 →

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City Agrees To Add Black Nurses at KGH (1952)

KGH School of Nursing Posted on January 24, 2016 by BillieJanuary 24, 2016

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 →

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Forty KGH Physicians Argue Against Negro Staff in 1936

KGH School of Nursing Posted on January 24, 2016 by BillieJanuary 24, 2016

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 →

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Leader of Black Nursing Association Spoke in Knoxville in 1940

KGH School of Nursing Posted on January 24, 2016 by BillieJanuary 24, 2016

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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  • Dr. H. M. Green, Early 20th Century Knoxville Physician
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  • Martha Lee Burden Bowden, R. N.
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