written byThomas J. Ward. Jr.

Professor of History and Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, Farmingdale State College

Thomas J. Ward Jr. is a professor of history and Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at Farmingdale State College (SUNY). He is the author of Out in the Rural: A Mississippi Health Center and Its War on Poverty (Oxford University Press, 2017) and Black Physicians in the Jim Crow South (University of Arkansas Press, 2003).