Skip to main content

The timeline can be navigated by dragging the pointer on the timeline bar, located at the bottom of the screen on the desktop version and on the left of the screen on mobile. To filter by a specific topic, make a selection on the dropdown “Filters” menu or click “Search” to do a keyword search. To learn more, click “Read More” below.

Read More

A group of medical doctors proposes urbanization as a means of eliminating the "race problem."

1929

EUG
GENO
RAC
MED

A Southern medical fraternity proposes that ‘‘one sure and easy way of solving the race problem would be to huddle all the Negroes into our cities," (Patterson, 2008) leading to race extinction. Many cities in this time have higher Black death rates than birth rates.