Wow, an very excellent and informative article with great insights and clear background. I knew of the Lack’s story but not in this context and with the wider picture which really expands on the historical context and brings light to the true long term disregard fro black American women so deeply problematic. The conclusion is accurate: this is the start of such corrections. It is not a short process. In that view, I find this one fact to be revealing, that black American women had no where to be treated in the 1950s. What indeed were all the hospitals and doctors for? In the 15 state region near John Hopkins, the answers was whites. Legal segregation by laws in that region, under sanction from the Supreme Court, allowed for all tax dollars and resources to be distributed upward to whites and the expanse of repressed black American citizens deprived of their voice in government by having their ability to vote blocked by decades and decades of exclusionary laws in those states in particular where the segregation laws were decidedly pro segregation. Millions of black Americans worked unprotected in agriculture and in domestic settings for almost nothing, prevented from unionizing federally, with no ability to get welfare, medical treatment, education after 8th grade, and lived in for squalid conditions.