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White Haven Sanatorium in Philadelphia opens for terminal tuberculosis patients.

Date: 1909

The Story of Tuberculosis
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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.