Event Title
The positive duty to aid them: Segregated Health, Federal Responsibility, and the Mississippi Choctaws during the 1918-1919 Influenza Pandemic
Location
Barnard Observatory, Tupelo Room
Start Date
6-11-2019 12:00 PM
End Date
6-11-2019 1:00 PM
Publication Date
November 2019
Description
This lecture will discuss the influenza pandemic of 1918 that reinforced the need for a federal presence in the segregated South. In the following years, the Mississippi Choctaws marshaled that federal-tribal relationship to rebuild their land base and restore their sovereignty.
Relational Format
conference proceeding
Recommended Citation
University of Mississippi. Center for the Study of Southern Culture, "The positive duty to aid them: Segregated Health, Federal Responsibility, and the Mississippi Choctaws during the 1918-1919 Influenza Pandemic" (2019). All In. All Year Events Calendar. 28.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/all_in/2019/events/28
The positive duty to aid them: Segregated Health, Federal Responsibility, and the Mississippi Choctaws during the 1918-1919 Influenza Pandemic
Barnard Observatory, Tupelo Room
This lecture will discuss the influenza pandemic of 1918 that reinforced the need for a federal presence in the segregated South. In the following years, the Mississippi Choctaws marshaled that federal-tribal relationship to rebuild their land base and restore their sovereignty.