Hospitals and public health officials shaped a version of the polio story that centered white children while erasing the Black children who suffered alongside them. On the surface, America saw images of bright, well-equipped hospital rooms filled with white patients receiving attentive care. What those images hid were the segregated basement wards where Black children […]
Hidden in the woods of Maryland stood Henryton State Hospital, a tuberculosis sanatorium built in 1922 exclusively for African Americans. While white patients were treated in well-funded facilities, Black patients were sent to Henryton—remote, underfunded, and neglected. Families often couldn’t visit, and the hospital’s creation was less about care than about segregation. By the 1960s, […]
From 1907 to the 1970s, over 60,000 people were sterilized under U.S. eugenics laws. But the burden wasn’t equal. Disabled women, especially those who were poor, were singled out. Black women in the South, Native women on reservations, and Latina women in cities like Los Angeles were targeted disproportionately. Eugenics treated poverty as a defect, […]
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