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Flexner's report pulled funding and closed Black medical schools
A historian reads Abraham Flexner’s 1910 report and watches funding vanish from Black medical schools-how did that expose them?
Flexner's report pulled funding and closed Black medical schools
In this episode a narrator traces the century-long buildup of barriers that left just 2.4% of medical graduates African American in 1950. We follow the institutions, policies, and personal stories that shaped access to medical training and ask how ordinary decisions produced that bottleneck.
Person: Abraham Flexner
Date: 1910
Event: Medical Education in the United States and Canada (report)
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