News and Views: A Quarter-Century of Strong African-American Progress in Medical School Education May Be Coming to an Abrupt Halt

From: The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education | Date: January 31, 1998 | Copyright information

News and Views: A Quarter-Century of Strong African-American Progress in Medical School Education May Be Coming to an Abrupt Halt

For most of its history, medical school education in the United States has been largely racially segregated. In the 20-year period between 1952 and 1972 Harvard Medical School graduated a grand total of 12 black physicians. As late as 1968, there were only two black first-year medical students enrolled at Harvard. Harvard was not alone. In 1968 there were about 130 blacks enrolled at all of the nation's predominantly white medical schools combined.

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