Beatrice Borders was a third-generation African American midwife who turned her home into a maternity shelter in the early 1940s. The shelter, located in Camilla, Georgia, was named after her mother, The Williams Nursing Home. Records show that as many as 6,000 Black babies were delivered at the home. As both Borders's mother and grandmother […]

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