The sanatorium, known as the "Fresh Air Camp," is established for both African Americans and white people living with tuberculosis in Alabama. The camp includes nine cabins for white people and five for Black people, even though most of the tuberculosis patients in Montgomery are African American. Almost immediately, white backlash rises against the funding for the camp, calling for Black patients to pay for their own care. Similar fights take place in cities across the South (as well as some in the North) over the cost of admission to medical care. Many states assign white administrators to control the financial and organizational paperwork for Black patients, and some refuse to fund Black tuberculosis care unless Black people pay for that care themselves.