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

1929

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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.