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July 2009, Vol 99, No. 7 | American Journal of Public Health 1185-1187
© 2009 American Public Health Association

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Reaching the Negro Community

Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.


Figure 1
US Army Colonel (Retired) Midian O. Bousfield receiving the Legion of Merit from Brigadier General John A. Rogers, April 1946. (Photo courtesy of the National Archives)

THE NEGRO FURNISHES one-tenth of the population of the United States, and as such his health problems should be important to public health workers. Three-quarters of these 12 million Negroes still live in southern states and the majority of them in rural areas where there are most often inadequate medical facilities for either white or black.

About 1915 there began the migration of Negroes from the rural areas and small towns to industrial centers.... . . . [Full Text]

Vanessa Northington Gamble, MD, PhD and Theodore M. Brown, PhD

Vanessa Northington Gamble is with the George Washington University, Washington, DC. Theodore M. Brown is with the Departments of History and Community and Preventative Medicine, University of Rochester, NY.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Vanessa Northington Gamble, MD, PhD, University Professor of Medical Humanities, The George Washington University, Gelman Library, Suite 709G, 2130 H Street, NW, Washington, DC 20052 (e-mail: vngamble@gwu.edu).






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