Episode 9 - Ruth Coker Burks

Women Vs Everything

English - May 16, 2021 20:49 - 1 hour - 86.5 MB
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In this episode, Grace and Jess tell the story of Ruth Coker Burks, The Cemetary Angel who cared for and nursed more than a thousand men during the AIDS Crisis in the 1980s when no one else would. Forty of these men are buried in her own family plot, after their bodies were never collected by their families.

Sources:

How to Own the Room Podcast - 2021

GriefCast 2021 - #127

Ruth Coker Burks' Autiobiography "All the Young Men."