At 11:45 am on June 22, 1951, 18-year-old Minnie Bell Stewart was pronounced dead on arrival at Columbia Hospital in Columbia, South Carolina. Minnie had worked as a domestic servant.
Her cause of death was determined to be generalized peritonitis due to a criminal abortion. It was ruled a homicide.
A practical nurse was held by police in the case.
Both Minnie and the nurse were Black women.
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Sources:
- "Girl Dies Here After Abortion," The State, June 23, 1951
- South Carolina death certificate #51 009168
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