Skip to main content

The timeline can be navigated with the “Scroll Left” and “Scroll Right” buttons or by dragging the pointer to a date on the timeline waveform (located at the bottom of the screen on the desktop version and on the left of the screen on mobile). To filter by a particular topic and see a smaller section of the data, make a selection on the dropdown “Filters” menu or click “Search” to do a keyword search. Hover over the abbreviated filter tags in the blue boxes to see the complete name of the filter, or click a filter to display all the data with this tag. If you want to take a deeper dive into a specific topic by viewing a narrative essay page and a curated timeline, click on “Stories.”

Read More

Public health and hospital funding continues to grow alongside new social programs.

Date: 1935

HOSP
JCL
LLP
PH

The Social Security Act includes significant subsidies for public health initiatives. Foundations begin to collaborate with state governments in the South to subsidize care by constructing segregated "separate but equal" hospitals that, in reality, are anything but equal.