To Raise Up the Man Farthest Down

The authors of this slender but factually dense volume painstakingly chronicle virtually every example of the Tuskegee Institute's work in medical affairs. They focus on its commendable initiatives in education, medical research, and health care on campus, plus its many outreach programs that provided health care through mobile clinics. The Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University) is synonymous with Booker T. Washington's efforts to raise African Americans up by their bootstraps in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Less known is his emphasis on improving the health of Black Americans. To meet the needs of the rural areas of Macon County, Alabama, Washington built the Jesup agricultural wagon, a horse-drawn vehicle filled with instructional materials and farm implements; the wagon also doubled as a mobile medical clinic. Nationally, he launched National Negro Health Week to educate African Americans about the importance of public health and provide practical instruction in healthy

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