The African-American
Health Crises Under
Jim Crow

• In the early Sixties, the mortality rate for Black infants stood at 42 per 1000 live births; the white infant mortality rate was 22.

• During this same period, the cancer death rate for Black women was on the rise and the cancer death rate for white women was declining.

• In 1963, a Black man with pneumonia had half the chance of surviving as his white counter-part.

In 2021 the Wall Street Journal reported that African-Americans are three-times as likely to die of Covid-19 than other Americans.

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Click here to read a history of African-Americans between the years 1619 through 1939.