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Maryland's Conference on Tuberculosis addresses the difference between Black and white mortality rates.

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The Story of Tuberculosis
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The focus of the conference is not on Black health, necessarily, but on the self-interest of white people who employ Black people as cooks and drivers to take the rate of tuberculosis in the Black community seriously. The outcome of the conference is a call for adequate tuberculosis care for Black people paid for by white people to support white interests.

It will take eight years of fighting white neighborhoods for the right to build a sanatorium for Black people before members of the conference are able to find a location and finally open the space.