Movements and Debates

By inventing the cotton gin

By developing methods to prevent soil depletion

By pioneering irrigation techniques

By creating synthetic fertilizers

Developing the polio vaccine.

Inventing the first artificial heart.

Founding Provident Hospital and performing the world's first successful heart surgery.

Leading the Tuskegee Syphilis Study.

To replace existing government-run hospitals.

To provide specialized care for wealthy patients.

To address healthcare disparities and provide care to underserved communities.

To promote segregation in healthcare.

Segregation led to better funding for Black hospitals.

Discrimination prevented African Americans from accessing quality healthcare in mainstream facilities.

Segregation encouraged collaboration between Black and white doctors.

Discrimination increased the number of white doctors willing to treat Black patients.

George Washington Carver

Lewis Latimer

Garrett Morgan

Otis Boykin

By creating new educational programs specifically for women and minorities.

By breaking racial and gender barriers, inspiring more women and minorities to pursue STEM careers.

By establishing laws that mandated equal representation in STEM fields.

By funding scholarships for women and minorities in STEM.

To promote genetic diversity.

To improve the human race through selective breeding and sterilization.

To provide better healthcare for people with disabilities.

To advocate for civil rights for marginalized groups.

They were given preferential treatment in healthcare.

They were encouraged to pursue higher education.

They faced harassment, institutionalization, and forced sterilization.

They were provided with more job opportunities.

It led to increased agricultural productivity.

It improved urban traffic flow and reduced accidents.

It enhanced home lighting and reduced fire hazards.

It advanced computer technology and healthcare.

By promoting inclusive policies.

By justifying discrimination and limiting opportunities for Black people with disabilities, leading to long-term disadvantages.

By increasing funding for disability services.

By reducing stigma associated with disabilities.