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The Rockefeller Foundation reports substantial racial segregation in medical care.
Date: 1925
"Scientific" racism & ableism
Hospitals
Home health care
Medical system (Western medicine)
Jim Crow era & lynching
Racism/white supremacy
The author of the report, Ethel Johns, notes that "segregation is 'not permitted' and yet tacitly exists" in healthcare at hospitals and in homes.
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