... and black single mothers blamed for children's shortcomings Public housing acceptance of poor tenants in African American women public health health care Philadelphia General Hospital health policies In the early 1960s, Edwina Jordan lived in South Philadelphia with her young son and worked...

... and health policies. While hemispheric and diasporic trends influenced the nature of these policies, the book shows that the actions of the physicians, philanthropists, midwives, and impoverished mothers who were the targets of the policies were central to shaping and implementing efforts to ensure...