Fine Print: Nurse Midwife. Berkeley County, South Carolina, 1951 Prints

Fine Print: Nurse Midwife. Berkeley County, South Carolina, 1951 PrintsIn 1951, during the height of segregation, LIFE magazine staff photographer W. Eugene Smith documented the heroic efforts of a black nurse midwife, Maude Callen, who served an impoverished community of 10,000 people in rural South Carolina. The story appeared in the December 3, 1951, issue of LIFE. The caption read: SIMPLE KINDNESS overwhelms an old man, who had been paralyzed for 20 years. The story made a plea for donations to build Maude a new

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Reissued in 2021

a series of exhibitions curated by independent curator and photographic historian Pauline Vermare

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Sammy Davis Jr endured virulent racial prejudice to establish himself as one of greatest American entertainers of all time

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