Newark, New Jersey

CTL-E-3189 · Locality · city · contemporary

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Newark, New Jersey: the city where Bessie Blount studied nursing at Community Kennedy Memorial Hospital — New Jersey's only African-American owned and run and first integrated hospital — and trained as a physical therapist; she was among the first to integrate the Newark area hospitals.

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Also known as: Newark NJ

Notes

RELP73 new supporting entity (2026-10-06); name-collision checked against canonical entities.json.

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Bessie Blount Griffin — based in → this record

Sources

BlackPast.org - Bessie Blount Griffin (1914-2009)
Star-Ledger obituary - Bessie Griffin (2010)

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