@article{458619,
      recid = {458619},
      author = {Thomas, Karen Kruse.},
      title = {Deluxe Jim Crow civil rights and American health policy,  1935-1954 / [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {University of Georgia Press,},
      address = {Athens :},
      pages = {xvii, 372 p. :},
      year = {2011},
      abstract = {"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"--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/458619},
}