Unfortunately, sometimes determining what is “right” can be hard to pinpoint.
Her first job is at a one of the city’s family planning clinics, where she is committed to doing whatever she can to help others. Awarded four stars on Goodreads.Ĭivil Townsend, the idealistic daughter of a successful Black physician in Montgomery, AL has just completed her nursing degree. And these events take place as recently as the 1970s. Similar to the infamous Tuskegee Experiment that involved Black men suffering from syphilis, TAKE MY HAND is inspired by the tragic but true story of another government financed program that abused a disproportionate number of young Black women. I’m not sure why it still shocks me each time I come across another blatant episode in our country’s shameful racist history, particularly when it is a story I’ve never heard about.
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