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Medicine and the Black Experience
American medicine was built on the backs of slaves. And it still affects how doctors treat patients today. (Washington Post)
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans From Colonial Times to the Present (Book Review)
Mississippi appendectomies and reproductive justice (MSNBC)
The Tuskegee Timeline (CDC)
Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment (Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History)
Understanding and Ameliorating Medical Mistrust Among Black Americans (Commonwealth Fund)
Unwanted Sterilization and Eugenics Programs in the United States (PBS)
Company Towns
1973 Drive through Sparrows Point, MD (YouTube)
America’s Company Towns, Then and Now (Smithsonian)
Company Town (ABC-CLIO Daily Life)
Company town is gone, but it lives on in its residents (Baltimore Sun)
Company Towns (Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History)
Company Towns: 1880s to 1935 (Social Welfare History Project)
The Great Migration
Great Migration: The African-American Exodus North (NPR)
The Great Migration (ABC-CLIO American History)
The Great Migration (History.com)
The Long-Lasting Legacy of the Great Migration (Smithsonian)
Historically Black Colleges (HBCUs)
Historically Black Colleges and Universities (Encyclopedia of Race and Racism)
Historically Black Colleges and Universities (Gale in Context)
The History of Historically Black Colleges & Universities (HBCUs) (Arlington Public Schools)
What is an HBCU? (HBCU Lifestyle)
What is an HBCU? (US Dept of Education)
Jim Crow
Freedom Riders: Jim Crow Laws (PBS)
Jim Crow (ABC-CLIO American History)
Jim Crow Laws (Gale In Context Online Collection)
Jim Crow Laws (History.com)
Jobs for Black Men and Women Early Twentieth Century
African Americans in the Twentieth Century (EH.net)
Black Workers Remember (American Prospect)
Employment and Income of Negro Workers - 1940-52 (Bureau of Labor Statistics)
For black steel men, the living wasn't easy (Baltimore Sun)
Life in Industrial America (YAWP) (scroll to The New South and Problems of Race sections)
Biomedical Ethics
Ethics of Informed Consent and the Legacy of Henrietta Lacks (Rabin Martin)
Henrietta Lacks (Encyclopedia of World Biography)
Henrietta Lacks and the Evolution of Bioethics (University of California Irvine)
Informed Consent (American Medical Association)
The Legacy of Henrietta Lacks (Johns Hopkins)
