Anna Louise Tittman Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

Anna Tittm
are jobs of that kind. Many a hospital doesn't have a sqool of nursing.
The director of the wwd would, she must be a supervisor{ She may be
directing but her title is supervisor and unless it's an phase
of nurslng, something new or sorething very large and di
Q. How many black nurses did you have?
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A. We had quite a few because there was a school of in Chicago
that trained them. I know that their names sorr~times
Q. Did you have any. problems? Was the= discrimination4 were there any
problems placing the black nurses?
A. Oh, yes, ah, yes. %t's too bad but that
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happens. But you ask them,
though, the employer or you can give her name but you t say that she is
a negro or she's, give them som [indication] but they
training that mybe they graduated from an accredited
good one. Sorne of the state hospitals, they we new1
in psychiatry. Well, they have no trouble getting a p
at all and even work up, they become supervisors mybe
institution or elsewhere. 1 placed a nurse one time
her husband was a male nurse and I qt him a job too,
institution. In fact, that's happened right here in
was with either one of the other Chicago arranglnents. now, sometimes
they have a leaning for a particular atmosphere,ap
then, if you don't have a job listed with you there
them somthing or suggest somthing next door in
state. You just have to use your imagination a
Q. In the New Mexico case, b d New Mexico witten to yo
write to New Mexico?
A. Oh, I didn't write, no. If there's an employer,
opportunities all the time or mst of the t*, or
reported it yet and they do have something, maybe
havd a nmber of people doing
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that s
oveP maybe Fn that or just an Mvl.
thaq they want and a special oms a
"We1;1, 1 have a job 'chat flts you,
so Qn,
Q. How did you hear about 3.n New Mexico
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A. &ll, I just used that
f'mq them. Not S? Illinois
ku,m the Nurse Placement Se
the !five states, but it
Now *I dlonlt know, I
serqices or
. This ale J trained,
tried to develop the
executive portion too, as much as I could because she co-LLd be in charge
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