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Negro Health Week is launched.

1915

The Story of Tuberculosis
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Robert Moton, a successor to Booker T. Washington, gets support from the national Public Health Service to launch the National Negro Health Week, and with the involvement of the Public Health Service is able to provide vaccinations, physicians and dental visits but at a cost. Suddenly the campaign's messaging shifts from Black people relying on themselves for care to “describing how much people needed physicians to obtain good health" (Braff, 2020).