In August 1619, a Portuguese ship carrying 20 enslaved Africans landed in Port Comfort, part of the British Colony of Virginia. Historians estimate that between 12 million to 12.8 million Africans were forcibly moved from Africa across the Atlantic during the Transatlantic slave trade from the 16th to the 19th century.

The Association of American Indian Physicians was founded in 1971 by a group of fourteen American Indian and Alaska Native physicians. The group wanted to establish an organization to provide support and services to American Indian and Alaska Native communities. The primary goal of the organization is to improve the health of American Indian and Alaska Natives.

Established in 1973 as a standing committee of the Dean of the Facu

Throughout the 1970s and 80s, stu

The Office of Recruitment and Multicultural Affairs (initially known as the Office of Recruitment and Retention) was established in 1969.

Former Robert Winthrop Professor of Neurobiology, Emeritus

Alice Hamilton was hired as an assistant professor in 1919 to crea

In 1976, the New England Journal of Medicine published an editorial by Professor Bernard Davis. Dr. Davis, Professor of Bacterial Physiology, wrote "Academic Standards in Medical Schools," positing that some minority students accepted to Harvard Medical School did not have qualifications necessary for success.