Deluxe Jim Crow : civil rights and American health policy, 1935-1954 / / Karen Kruse Thomas.

"Plagued by geographic isolation, poverty, and acute shortages of health professionals and hospital beds, the South was dubbed by Surgeon General Thomas Parran "the nation's number one health problem." The improvement of southern, rural, and black health would become a top priori...

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Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Physical Description:xvii, 372 p. :; ill., map.
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Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. The nation's number one
  • pt. 2. Deluxe Jim Crow comes of age, 1938-1945
  • pt. 3. Deluxe Jim Crow under Harry S. Truman, 1945-1953.