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Item HOUSE AND SENATE DEMOCRATS ANNOUNCE PRINCIPLES FOR ADDRESSING RACIAL AND ETHNIC HEALTH DISPARITIES(0000) US House and, Senate DemocratsDemocrats are committed to the elimination of racial and ethnic disparities in health care access, health care quality, health outcomes and the health care workforce because all Americans deserve equal treatment in health care. A proper investment in health care will improve both the health and economic well-being of our country. Legislation to address racial and ethnic health disparities should do the following:Item Nathan Francis Mossell, M.D., 1882 (1856-1946(1882) UNSPECIFIEDNathan Francis Mossell, M.D., 1882 (1856-1946), was the first African-American to graduate from Penn's Medical School. In 1895 Dr. Mossell was a co-founder of the Frederick Douglass Hospital, which later merged with Mercy Hospital to form Mercy-Douglass.Item Indians in the United States(La Nacion, 1885) Reader, Jose MartiThis article, describing the annual meeting of the Mohonk Convention on the Indian question, was published in La Nacion, Buenos Aires, December4,1885.Item National Negro Health Week(1922) Greene, D.This year's Negro Health Week, the eighth held, was conducted by Dr. R. R. Moton, of Tuskegee Institute, April 2-8, under the auspices of the Annual Tuskegee Negro Conference and the National Negro Business League, and in co6peration with the U. S. Public Health Service, national and state tuberculosis societies, the Red Cross, American Social Hygiene Association, and many other organizations. The purpose was to reduce morbidity and mortality among Negroes by educational methods, with particular emphasis on tuberculosis, infant mortality and venereal diseases.Item The Need of Health Education Among Negroes(1924) Jackson, Algernon B.I have a habit of saying that I should much prefer seeing my boy or girl the possessor of the C.B.H. degree – clean bill of health – than an A.B. degree without the C.B. H. One is essential in order to get most out of and put most into life. The other is not. You do not have to possess a college degree to be a regular human being, but you must have health. From what I so often see I am sometimes inclined to think a degree frequently stands between certain persons and that attribute of humanness which should always be the highest concept of true education. In the light of present day thought any scholastic process which neglects to inspire the student with an appreciation and love for personal health and a regard for the health of his fellowman is nothing short of an absolute failure.Item NATIONAL NEGRO HEALTH WEEK TO BE OBSERVED APRIL I TO 8, 1928(1928) Public Health Reportsl, StaffThe week of April 1 to April 8, 1928, has been set aside for the fourteenth observance of National Negro Health Week. State and municipal health departments, voluntary health organizations, and numerous other official and unofficial agencies interested in race welfare and advancement are cooperating with the United States Public Health Service in a determined effort to improve health and living conditions.Item National Meetings: Preliminary Conference Regarding National Negro Health Week 1930(1930) Alexander, W.G.; Miller, Kelly, Jr.The annual conference of representatives from the several health and social agencies co-operatting in the National Negro Health Week movement called by the Surgeon General of the United States Public Health Service at the request of Dr. R. R. Moton, of Tuskegee Institute, was convened in Washington, D.C., October 19, 1929, to consider ways and means for the sixteenth annual observance of the National Negro Health Week, March 30 to April 6, 1930.Item Tuskegee Syphilis Study Pictures: Nurse Eunice Rivers filling out paper work(1932) UNSPECIFIEDNurse Eunice Rivers filling out paper work (National Archives, Atlanta, GA)Item Tuskegee Syphilis Study Pictures: Dr. David Albritton, Nurse Eunice Rivers and Dr. Walter Edmondson(1932) UNSPECIFIEDLeft: Dr. David Albritton, Nurse Eunice Rivers and Dr. Walter Edmondson (National Archives, GA)Item Tuskegee Syphilis Study Pictures: unidentified subject, small boy and nurse Rivers in cotton field [in Bad Blood](1932) UNSPECIFIEDunidentified subject, small boy and nurse Rivers in cotton field [in Bad Blood] National Archive, Atlanta, GAItem Tuskegee Syphilis Study Pictures: unidentified subject, Dr. David Albritton, and Dr. Edmondson(1932) UNSPECIFIEDLeft: unidentified subject, Dr. David Albritton, and Dr. Edmondson (National Archives, Atlanta, GA)Item Tuskegee Syphilis Study Pictures: Two unidentified white doctors...(1932) UNSPECIFIEDTwo unidentified white doctors and Nurse Rivers (National Archives- Atlanta, GA)Item Tuskegee Syphilis Study Pictures: Unidentified subject...(1932) UNSPECIFIEDUnidentified subject, onlookers and Dr. Walter Edmondson taking a blood test (National Archive- Atlanta, GA)Item Tuskegee Syphilis Study Pictures: Blood test by Mr. William Bouie and unidentified woman(1932) UNSPECIFIEDBlood test by Mr. William Bouie and unidentified woman (National Archives, Atlanta, GA)Item Tuskegee Syphilis Study Pictures: Dr. David Albritton...(1932) UNSPECIFIEDDr. David Albritton drawing blood from unidentified subject. (National Archive- Atlanta, GA)Item Tuskegee Syphilis Study Pictures: Blood test and unidentified subject(1932) UNSPECIFIEDBlood test and unidentified subject (National Archives, Atlanta, GA)Item Tuskegee Syhilis Study Pictures- Audience(1932) UNSPECIFIEDTuskegee Syphilis Study Pictures- Audience National Archives, Atlanta, GAItem Tuskegee Syphilis Study Pictures: unidentified male(1932) UNSPECIFIEDunidentified male (National Archives, Atlanta, GA)Item Tuskegee Syphilis Study Pictures: unidentified male(1932) UNSPECIFIEDunidentified male (National Archives, Atlanta, GA)Item Tuskegee Syphilis Study Pictures: William Bouie, Unidentified subject, and Dr. David Albritton(1932) UNSPECIFIEDLeft: William Bouie, Unidentified subject, and Dr. David Albritton (National Archives, Atlanta, GA)