Table of Contents

Foreword by H. Jack Geiger

Introduction

1. From South Africa to Mississippi

2. Community Organizing

3. Delivering Health Care

4. Environmental Factors

5. The Farm Co-op

6. Conflict and Change

Epilogue
Bibliography

About the Author

Thomas J. Ward is the chair of the History Department at Spring Hill College in Mobile, Alabama. A native of Annapolis, Maryland, he earned his Ph.D. in history from the University of Southern Mississippi. He is the author of numerous works on both African-American history and the history of health care, including his first book, Black Physicians in the Jim Crow South. He lives in Spanish Fort, Alabama with his wife and three sons.

Reviews

"Ward makes an important contribution to the interest in poor people's institutions and to the fullness of southern history." -- Anthony B. Newkirk, Arkansas Review
Ward shows that " Publishers Weekly