GERMS KNOW NO COLOR LINE - BLACK HEALTH AND PUBLIC-POLICY IN ATLANTA, 1900-1918
GERMS KNOW NO COLOR LINE - BLACK HEALTH AND PUBLIC-POLICY IN ATLANTA, 1900-1918
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DOI:
10.1093/jhmas/40.1.22
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发表时间:
1985-01-01
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0.5
通讯作者:
GALISHOFF, S
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作者:
GALISHOFF, S
• HE Progressive Era in American History was hardly that for blacks living in the South. During the years 1900-1918, race relations reached a nadir as blacks lost what few gains they had made during Reconstruction. Instead of equality under the law and the right to vote, as provided in the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the Constitution, there was segregation and disfranchisement.In Atlanta, blacks were excluded from city parks, white hotels, and restaurants. They were allowed into some theatres but required to use separate entrances and to sit only in the galleries. In the city's new office buildings, there were two elevators, one for whites and the other for freight and blacks. The separation of the races applied to all social classes and ages. Black infants requiring medical care were treated in a separate wing of the municipal hospital. Black children attended segregated and inferior schools. Black adults were required to take oaths on different bibles from those used to swear in whites, were kept apart in jails, and were buried in separate cemeteries. 1 The harsh discriminatory treatment of blacks was reflected in the