African American Women's Health Activism in Rural Arkansas

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Cherisse Jones-Branch, Ph.D. 

James and Wanda Lee Vaughn Professor of History

Dean of the Graduate School

Arkansas State University

In multifarious ways, African American women engaged in rural community health activism throughout the Jim Crow South. Focusing specifically on Arkansas, Dr. Cherisse Jones-Branch will discuss their health initiatives as they confronted the myriad ills that deeply impacted African American communities in the Arkansas Delta.