Deluxe Jim Crow: Civil Rights and American Health Policy, 1935-1954

Plagued by geographic isolation, poverty, and acute shortages of health professionals and hospital beds, the South was...
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Author: Karen Kruse Thomas
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Deluxe Jim Crow: Civil Rights and American Health Policy, 1935-1954 by Thomas, Karen Kruse

Deluxe Jim Crow: Civil Rights and American Health Policy, 1935-1954

€73,81

Deluxe Jim Crow: Civil Rights and American Health Policy, 1935-1954

€73,81
Author: Karen Kruse Thomas
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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.

Author: Karen Kruse Thomas
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 12/01/2011
Pages: 328
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.07lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780820340449


Review Citation(s):
Choice 05/01/2012

About the Author
KAREN KRUSE THOMAS is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of the History of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

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