1915

Booker T. Washington launches National Negro Health Week at Tuskegee Institute (Ward, 249-250; S. Smith, 33-57). Tuskegee administered the program from 1915 to 1930, at which time USPHS, with support from the Julius Rosenwald Fund, took it over and placed it under the umbrella of a year-round National Negro Health Movement. In 1932, USPHS opened the Office of Negro Health Work, with Dr. Roscoe C. Brown as director (S. Smith, 58-61).