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|| xiii || Acknowledgments Portionsofthebookhavebeenpreviouslypublishedinsomewhatdifferentform as articles and appear with the permission of the following journals and their sponsors: “The Hill-Burton Act and Civil Rights: Expanding Hospital Care for Black Southerners, 1939–1960,” Journal of Southern History 72.4 (2006): 823–70; “‘Law unto Themselves’: Black Women as Patients and Practitioners in North Carolina’s Campaign to Reduce Maternal and Infant Mortality,” Nursing History Review 12 (2004): 47–66 (reproduced with permision of Springer Publishing Company); and “Dr. Jim Crow: The University of North Carolina, the Regional Medical School for Negroes, and the Desegregation of Southern MedicalEducation,1945–1960,”JournalofAfricanAmericanHistory88.3(2003): 223–44 (by permission of asalh). Support for research and writing came from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library, theClaudePepper Libraryat FloridaStateUniversity, theUniversityof Alabama at Birmingham Archives, and the Southern Oral History Program at theUniversityofNorthCarolina.Ihavebenefitedfromtheinsightfulcomments of many fine scholars, including first and foremost my adviser at the University of North Carolina, Jim Leloudis, and the members of my dissertation committee , Jacquelyn Hall, Spencie Love, James C. Thomas, Keith Wailoo, and Joel Williamson.ClarenceMohrhasprovidedinvaluableencouragementandadvice since my days as a Tulane undergrad, and Teresa Toulouse has been an inspiration to me and many other American studies students. For their scholarship and constructive criticism, my deep appreciation also goes to Gert Brieger, Colin Gordon,ElnaGreen,MargaretHumphreys,BillLink,JohnParascandola,Susan Reverby, Todd Savitt, and the anonymous grant and journal reviewers who have readmyworkalongtheway.Thankyoutotheablearchivistsandlibrariansatthe University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Wilson Library, the state archives of Florida and North Carolina, the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library, the National Archives at College Park, the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center at Howard University, the University Archives at University of Pittsburgh, the Claude Pepper Library at Florida State University, the Smathers Library Special Collections at University of Florida, and the University of Alabama at Birmingham Archives. And finally, thank you to the members of my family for their support over the many years it took to write this book. This page intentionally left blank ...