"Flexner Report — a landmark document in U.S. medical history that had a devastating effect on the number of Black physicians in this country."
Fletcher was a racist and although his findings in the Canadian and American medical schools brought about needed changes, his racism had a devastating affect.
Post publication of the above report in 1910, "After the Flexner Report, five of the seven Black medical schools in the United States were forced to close, leaving only Howard and Meharry."
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