In this comprehensive account; Thomas J. Ward examines the development of the African American medical profession in the South. Under segregation; the white medical profession provided inadequate service at best to African American patients. Paradoxically; African Americans could gain financial success and upward mobility by becoming doctors themselves. Ward tracks the rise of African American medical schools; professional organizations; and hospitals. He also explores the difficulties that African American physicians faced as an elite group within a subjugated caste; and the many ways in which their education; prestige; and relative wealth put them at odds with the southern caste system. Within the black community; in turn; this prestige often pushed doctors into the public sphere as business leaders; civic spokesmen; and political activists.Drawing on a variety of sources from oral histories to the records of professional organizations; this book illuminates the contradictions of race and class in the South and provides valuable new insight into class divisions within African American communities in the era of segregation.
#6722931 in Books Fulcrum Publishing 2000-07-21Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 8.40 x .90 x 5.30l; 1.15 #File Name: 1555910157384 pages
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. An insightful; original presentationBy Midwest Book ReviewThe Turning Point: Jefferson's Battle For The Presidency offers a comprehensive presentation of the dramatic; dead-heat; 1800 presidential campaign between Thomas Jefferson and his vice presidential running mate Aaron Burr. This is also the story of other key personalities involved including Margaret Bayard Smith; the daughter of a firm Federalist; who defied her family and gave her heart to Samuel Harrison Smith; a pro-Jefferson newspaper editor. Then their was Margaret's cousin; Delaware congressman James A. Bayard who held the key vote when Jefferson; after thirty-five deadlocked ballots in the House of Representatives; finally wrested victory from Aaron Burr amid threats of civil war; thereby concluding the Federalist era of aristocratic rule and opening American politics to the age of modern democracy. The Bayard-Smith love letters from the basis of this insightful; original presentation of the issues; events; and politically active personalities of an intensely fought and pivotal presidential campaign that would profoundly influence American history.1 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Very solid and readableBy A CustomerA solid account of the political turmoil surrounding the 1800 election; with vivid portraits of Jefferson; Hamilton; and Aaron Burr (J. Adams is more sketchy; a fact more evident in the post-McCullough treatment days.) There's less on broad electoral college strategizing than there might be and more on romance; as the narrative is centered around a series of love letters which might interest others more than they did me. Well-written and factual; to my knowledge; certainly worth a read by those interested in this era.
