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Providing Care and Education in Hampton – Simple Version
1891 Alice Mabel Bacon moved to Hampton, Virginia, in the late 1880s. Born in New England to a prominent abolitionist family, Bacon began teaching at Hampton Institute, a college for freedmen. When she learned that no formal nursing school existed for Black Americans, Bacon resolved to create one. She opened a hospital and nursing school […]
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