The We are NIH Oral History Project explores what the work environment was like for staff members of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that are from underrepresented communities who worked for the agency from the 1970s through the 1990s and witnessed the changing societal structures that ushered legal and policy changes aligned with the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. These narrations support the argument that while the agency did implement several changes in response to 1960s and 1970s civil rights legislation, and NIH has addressed this issue better than other institutions as the scientific community there has generally been progressive, there has always been a silent structure of institutional based racism, largely due to the implicit bias maintained by many within society.
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