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

White Haven Sanatorium in Philadelphia opens for terminal tuberculosis patients.

1909

The Story of Tuberculosis
MHP
RAC

In 1914, some white patients will protest about sharing space with Black patients. The director of the sanatorium will decide that creating a separate segregated space for Black patients is not cost effective. Instead, in response to these outbursts of white racism, they will simply not admit any more Black patients. This will become the norm for white sanatoriums in the North where either a segregated space is created or Black people will be entirely refused admission.