Word: racial
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...first, to eliminate disparities in healthcare among racial and ethnic groups, has been one of Satcher's career-long goals. He says it stems from the inadequate health care he received as a child. Today, life expectancies, mortality rates, infant death rates and morbidity rates are highest among America's ethnic minorities...
Satcher aims to eliminate disparity in the morbidity rates across racial and ethnic lines by the year...
...most of the [dining halls] students ofcolor sat together. There was a fair amount ofhostility and distrust. It was challenging to havecross-racial friendships," Piltch says
...there were two very central, very dramatic, very black and white issues. One was racial segregation, one was the war in Vietnam," he says. "Since then, there hasn't been a single issue that has been central enough...
John Minor Wisdom was one of the earliest and most influential voices against racial segregation. As a federal judge with jurisdiction over six states of the old Confederacy, Wisdom helped lead the South into the modern age by striking down barriers of racial discrimination in voting, jury selection, employment, schools, jails, public parks, playgrounds, hotels, restaurants, bars, sports and adoptions...