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Gunnar Myrdal publishes An American Dilemma, acknowledging racial disparities in healthcare.

Date: 1944

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While African-Americans have been making the case for generations about discrimination within health care, Myrdal is one of the first documented white researchers to publish these findings: “Area for area, class for class, Negroes cannot get the same advantages in the way of prevention and care of disease that whites can."