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000433775 08200 $$a362.1089/00973$$223
000433775 1001_ $$aThomas, Karen Kruse.
000433775 24510 $$aDeluxe Jim Crow :$$bcivil rights and American health policy, 1935-1954 /$$cKaren Kruse Thomas.
000433775 260__ $$aAthens :$$bUniversity of Georgia Press,$$cc2011.
000433775 300__ $$axvii, 372 p. :$$bill., map ;$$c24 cm.
000433775 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 347-356) and index.
000433775 520__ $$a"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 priority of the U.S. Public Health Service during the Roosevelt and Truman administrations.Karen Kruse Thomas details how NAACP lawsuits pushed southern states to equalize public services and facilities for blacks just as wartime shortages of health personnel and high rates of draft rejections generated broad support for health reform. Southern Democrats leveraged their power in Congress and used the war effort to call for federal aid to uplift the South. The language of regional uplift, Thomas contends, allowed southern liberals to aid blacks while remaining silent on race. Reformers embraced, at least initially, the notion of "deluxe Jim Crow"--support for health care that maintained segregation. Thomas argues that this strategy was, in certain respects, a success, building much-needed hospitals and training more black doctors.By the 1950s, deluxe Jim Crow policy had helped to weaken the legal basis for segregation. Thomas traces this transformation at the national level and in North Carolina, where "deluxe Jim Crow reached its fullest potential." This dual focus allows her to examine the shifting alliances--between blacks and liberal whites, southerners and northerners, activists and doctors--that drove policy. Deluxe Jim Crow provides insight into a variety of historical debates, including the racial dimensions of state building, the nature of white southern liberalism, and the role of black professionals during the long civil rights movement"--$$cProvided by publisher.
000433775 520__ $$a"Thomas provides a detailed history of federal health policy as it was applied to the U.S. South in the mid-twentieth century, a period when the region was described as "the number one health problem in the nation." In particular, she focuses on how reformers' early emphasis on across-the-board regional uplift was eclipsed by efforts to desegregate medical facilities and address racial disparities in the health care system"--$$cProvided by publisher.
000433775 650_0 $$aMinorities$$xMedical care$$zUnited States$$xHistory$$y20th century.
000433775 650_0 $$aDiscrimination in medical care$$zUnited States$$z20th century.
000433775 650_0 $$aEquality$$xHealth aspects$$zUnited States$$y20th century.
000433775 650_0 $$aAfrican Americans$$xMedical care$$zUnited States$$z20th century.
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