The experiences of minority nurses in Appalachia as across the country, from 1900-1964, varied by ethnicity. African American nurses were denied admission to "White" schools of nursing and were banned from employment in White hospitals. African American patients were admitted to small, inadequate "Negro" or "Colored" wards in Knoxville area hospital basements, which were often described a dark, cold and damp, if they were admitted at all. In response to these dire conditions, the first African American hospital in Appalachia, the Eliza B. Wallace Hospital was founded on the Knoxville College campus in 1907. The school added a nurse training program which was the first and for many years the only nurses training available to Appalachian African American women. The Helen Mae Lennon Hospital, a second hospital for African Americans was founded in the 1920s in Knoxville and also had a nurse training program. During this era,the U S government had an "assimilation policy" of "Americanizing" or "civilizing" Native Americans. Eastern Band Cherokee Indian women could be and were admitted to White schools of nursing including Knoxville General Hospital's program. they could and did join the US Army Nurse corps in WWII. The experiences of both groups will be examined along side the White nurses experiences.

Tese (doutorado)—Universidade de Brasília, Instituto de Ciências Humanas, Programa de Pós-Graduação em História, 2018. / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) e Fundação de Apoio à Pesquisa do Distrito Federal (FAP-DF). / Esta tese tem como objetivo mostrar como a teoria da modernização deixou a academia e entrou no mundo político americano por meio da influência do maior líder do partido democrata nos anos 50, Adlai Stevenson. Quer também evidenciar problemas entre a teoria e a prática desta ideia, que se mostram quando ela é consubstanciada em política externa por meio da Aliança para o Progresso. A hipótese que ela sustenta é a de que vários erros de leitura da conjuntura cultural e da política interna latino-americana, por parte dos norte-americanos, fizeram com que as ideias de modernização, pensadas na teoria, se revelassem inviáveis na prática. / This thesis aims to show the way modernisation theory left the academy and entered the American political world through the influence of Adlai Stevenson, the leader of the Democratic Party in the 50’s. It also highlights problems between the theory and practice of this idea, which are shown when it is embodied in foreign policy through the Alliance for Progress. The hypothesis that the thesis maintains is that several errors on how to perceive the cultural conjuncture and the domestic policy of Latin America made the ideas of modernisation, as thought in the theory, infeasible in Latin America.

The 1952 Presidential campaign ushered into national prominence the Democratic nominee, Adlai Ewing Stevenson. His sudden and dramatic emergence as an important factor in world politics was due in part to his unique oratory. Dynamic in style and content, his speeches commanded the rapt attention of the American people for three intense months during which he delivered over two hundred and fifty. Of interest and importance is the new insight into national problems that he gave to the American voter as a result of these orations. The problem is to analyze, through his public addresses before and during the 1952 campaign, the power of his oratory with respect to the enforcement of ideas, and to more fully understand his personality and philosophy.