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This study adds to the small but growing literature on Black health history--the rise of hospital care and hospital services provided to Blacks from the antebellum era to the integration era, a period of some 150 years.

Table of Contents

Introduction Black Hospital Care from the Plantation Era through Post-Reconstruction The Black Hospital: The Need for Hospitals, Training Clinics, and Medical Schools Descriptions of Selected Black Hospitals The Hill-Burton Act and Black Hospitals The Decline of the Black Hospital and Contemporary Public Policy Appendix: Black Hospitals in the U.S. (By State) Index

About the Author

MITCHELL F. RICE is Professor of Political Science and Public Administration at Louisiana State University. WOODROW JONES, JR. is Professor of Political Science at Texas A&M University. Together, they edited Contemporary Public Policy Perspectives and Black Americans (Greenwood, 1984), in addition to other works.