Negroes segregation

Taeuber, K., Taeuber, A. F. (1965). Negroes in cities Residential segregation and neighborhood change. Chicago Aldine. 

Society in the 20 s was almost totally segregated. When no country clubs would admit Jews, the Jews built their own where everyone was Jewish. Neither kind ever admitted Negroes. It was almost impossible for a Jew to get into medical school, or any professional school for that matter. It s well documented that even in the early 40 s Richard Feynman was turned down by Berkeley s physics department because of Chairman Birge s extreme prejudice. 

With this theory. Rush made the Negro a medically safe domestic, while at the same time called for his sexual segregation as a carrier of a dread hereditary disease. Here, then, was an early model of the perfect medical concept of illness—one that helps the physician and the society he serves, while justifying social maltreatment as medical prophylaxis. ... 

A small percentage of the officer candidates were Negroes. The records of these men were in no way distinguishable from those of white students. The Chemical Warfare Center made no distinction between candidates on the basis of race with no segregation whatever in the dormitories or the mess halls. White and Negro students, of course, sat in the same classes. ... 

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