Title: New Bern, N.C. Colored nurses issuing food after fire. 1922.
Glass negative.
Caption from negative: Wooten-Moulton. New Bern, NC.
Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card:
Data: 1922.
Classification: Fire relief. -
Source: LOC.
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Excerpt from article authored by 2020 Junior Fellow Sophia Southard for the LOC blog.

"African American nurses affiliated with the American Red Cross came to serve. According to the December 07, 1922 issue of The Rockingham Post-Dispatch, the African American community suffered disproportionately from a fire that lasted for approximately 9 hours. The newspaper reported that “fully 3000 people are homeless, most of whom are negroes.”