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Many Black hospitals have closed.
Date: 1984
Black history
Hospitals
Medical system (Western medicine)
Racism/white supremacy
By 1984, only 32 hospitals that were built during segregation and that serve Black communities remain. This demonstrates the problematic consequence of cutting resources to Black hospitals when desegregation is put into place.
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