Easing Black Children from the Polio Story #historyofeugenics #historyofmedicine #historyofscience
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 […]