While healthcare is available for both Black and white patients in this era, it remains racially divided, with Black healthcare significantly underfunded.

Writing for The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois notes that the City Hospital of Atlanta "prevented Black physicians from entering the building, forcing Black patients to leave their regular doctor behind, and delivering them instead to ‘a physician certainly less interested’" (Patterson, 2008). This lack of adequate care contributes to higher rates of disease and many other health impacts on Black communities versus their white neighbors.