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Article: News and Views; Veterinary Medicine: The Most Racially Segregated Field in Graduate Education Today

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The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
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January 31, 2004
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One of the few benefits of Jim Crow was its role in the development of a black professional and business elite. White medical doctors were unwilling to care for black patients. And this produced a need to train black doctors. White insurance sales agents were unwilling to go into black homes to sell life insurance, so a separate black-owned insurance industry developed. Similarly, segregation-driven career opportunities were created for black dentists, morticians, bankers, lawyers, hotel keepers, restaurateurs, and barbers. However, these "benefits" of segregation did not open veterinary medicine to blacks.

Here's the reason why. The science of veterinary medicine, as we know it today, ...

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