Research Catalog

Title

Godfrey Nurse papers, 1932-1937.

Author

Nurse, Godfrey, 1888-1967.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

• 1 microfilm reel.
• .2 lin. ft.

Summary

The Godfrey Nurse Papers pertain to his political career as a member of the Electoral College in 1932 and 1936.

Donor/Sponsor

Schomburg NEH Automated Access to Special Collections Project.

Subjects

• Democratic Party (N.Y.)
• Electoral college New York (State)
• Nurse, Godfrey, 1888-1967
• African American physicians > Political activity

Additional Formats (note)

• Microfilmed;

Biography (note)

• Godfrey Nurse, a surgeon who practiced in Harlem for over fifty years, was instrumental in the establishment and support of two hospitals in the late 1920's, the Edgecombe Sanitorium and the International Hospital, which provided facilities for black physicians and surgeons when all other New York hospitals were barred to them.

Indexes/Finding Aids (note)

• Partial inventory available.

Processing Action (note)

• Accessioned
• Scrapbooks microfilmed then dissassembled.
• Cataloged

Call Number

Sc MG 350

OCLC

NYPW090000002-A

Author

Nurse, Godfrey, 1888-1967.

Title

Godfrey Nurse papers, 1932-1937.

Additional Formats

Microfilmed; New York Public Library; call number, Sc Micro R-4843.

Access

Researchers restricted to microfilm.

Biography

Godfrey Nurse, a surgeon who practiced in Harlem for over fifty years, was instrumental in the establishment and support of two hospitals in the late 1920's, the Edgecombe Sanitorium and the International Hospital, which provided facilities for black physicians and surgeons when all other New York hospitals were barred to them. Born in Guyana, Nurse received the M.D. degree in 1914 from the Long Island College of Medicine. In the 1920's he established the Godfrey Nurse Research Laboratory, which was the first clinical laboratory operated by a black person to be certified by the Health Department. As head of the Manhattan Medical Society, composed of black physicians, Nurse was a leader in the successful efforts for the admission of black doctors to Harlem Hospital. In 1956 he donated $100,000 to that hospital for equipment and operation of a laboratory for surgical investigation.

Active in the Democratic Party, Nurse was the first black elector in the Democratic Party and the first black presidential elector from New York State. As a delegate to the first State Democratic Convention, with Commissioner Thomas E. Dyett, he secured the first endorsement in the state platform of the Wagner-Costigan Anti-Lynching Bill.

Indexes

Partial inventory available.

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Finding Aid

Research Call Number

Sc MG 350

Sc Micro R-4843