READING Out in the Rural: A Mississippi Health Center and Its War on Poverty

READING Out in the Rural: A Mississippi Health Center and Its War on Poverty

isbn	:	0190624620
Title	:	Out in the Rural: A Mississippi Health Center and Its War on Poverty
Author	:	Thomas J. Ward Jr.

 

Out in the Rural is the unlikely story of the Tufts-Delta Health Center, which in 1966 opened in Mound Bayou, Mississippi, to become the first rural community health center in the United States. Its goal was simple: to provide health care and outreach to the region's thousands of rural poor, most of them black sharecroppers who had lived without any medical resources for generations.In Out in the Rural, historian Thomas J. Ward explores the health center's story alongside the remarkable life of its founder, Dr. H. Jack Geiger. A former teenage runaway, through a serendipitous turn of events he click here to download