Illustrations Preface Introduction: Opening the Historical Path Part I. Discovering the Black Health Crisis 1. The Southern Negro Problem and the Origins of Sociomedical Racialism 2. The Turn Toward Scientific Epidemiology: Black Migrations, Worls War I, and the New Clinical Order 3. Medicine's First Line of Defense: Building the Black Public Health Sector in the 1920s Part II. Federal Missions, Racial Realities 4. The Nation-State Confronts the Black Health Crisis: Depressions Through New Deal 5. The Black Health Paradigm Solidifies: From World War II to Pharmacological Revolution 6. Health Care Delivery and a People Divided: Facing the AIDS Epidemic Appendix: Membership List of the Conference with Negro Leaders/American Social Hygiene Association, 1943 Abbreviations Notes Index