Malliotakis Honors Staten Island's Black Angels
July 02, 2024
July 02, 2024
WASHINGTON, July 2 -- Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, R-New York, issued the following news release:
(STATEN ISLAND, NY) - Yesterday, Congresswoman Nicole Malliotakis (NY-11) met with Virginia Allen and Curlene Jennings Bennett, two of the last living 300 African-American nurses, also known as the "Black Angels," who treated thousands of Tuberculosis patients at Staten Island's Sea View Hospital 70 years ago. Malliotakis presented Allen and Jennings Bennett with commemorative coi . . .
(STATEN ISLAND, NY) - Yesterday, Congresswoman Nicole Malliotakis (NY-11) met with Virginia Allen and Curlene Jennings Bennett, two of the last living 300 African-American nurses, also known as the "Black Angels," who treated thousands of Tuberculosis patients at Staten Island's Sea View Hospital 70 years ago. Malliotakis presented Allen and Jennings Bennett with commemorative coi . . .