Spreading the Gospel of Health: Tuskegee Institute and National Negro Health Week

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dc.contributor.authorSmith, Susan
dc.date.accessioned2019-08-14T15:02:18Z
dc.date.available2019-08-14T15:02:18Z
dc.date.issued1995
dc.description.abstractIn the early twentieth century the health reform efforts of black club women became part of a national black health movement. In 1915 Booker T. Wash- ington, the most powerful black leader of his time, launched a health educa- tion campaign known as National Negro Health Week from Tuskegee In- stitute in Alabama. Washington, as founder and head of the school, had long emphasized sanitation and hygiene in his educational work. However, that year he set in motion a health campaign that would grow into a nation- wide black health movement over the next thirty-five years. For black lead- ers and community organizers, National Negro Health Week campaigns provided a way to advance the race through the promotion of black health education and cooperation across racial lines.
dc.description.urihttps://www.questia.com/read/1771891/sick-and-tired-of-being-sick-and-tired-black-women-s
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/pq8z-7dn6
dc.identifier.citationSmith, Susan (1995) Spreading the Gospel of Health: Tuskegee Institute and National Negro Health Week. In: Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired: Black Women's Health Activism in America, 1890-1950. Studies in Health, Illness, and Caregiving . University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, p. 33.
dc.identifier.isbn978-0-8122-1449-9
dc.identifier.otherEprint ID 2514
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/23198
dc.publisherUniversity of Pennsylvania Press
dc.subjectPublic Health
dc.subjectTeaching
dc.subjectNational Negro Health Week
dc.subjectBooker T. Washington
dc.titleSpreading the Gospel of Health: Tuskegee Institute and National Negro Health Week
dc.typeBook Chapter

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