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Grady Hospital in Atlanta was segregated until the mid-1960s. But there were times when blacks and whites found themselves sharing the same space.

In this week’s feature from the StoryCorps Griot Initiative, Murray Brown — a nursing student at Grady in the ’50s — recounts some of her experiences at the Storycorps Griot Booth in Atlanta. Brown is now retired from her 42-year nursing career.