Primary

“200 Arrested Here in Demonstrations: Mass Move Conducted By Negroes.” Greensboro Daily News, May 16, 1963.

“Adults Warned To Be Prepared To Go To Jail.” Greensboro Daily News, May 20, 1963.

Arnett, Ethel Stephens. Greensboro, North Carolina: The County Seat of Guilford. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1955.

Benjamin, Dorothy Ann. “Greensboro Hospital Set to Close Work Sept. 30.” The Wilmington News, March 27, 1958.

“Charlotte Man Dies From Polio.” Rocky Mount Telegram, July 27, 1950.

“Conditions of ‘Jail’ Cited.” Greensboro Daily News, May 20, 1963.

Davis, Wilson. “Air of Calmness Hanging Over Jammed Old Hospital.” Greensboro Record, May 20, 1963.

“Doctors Verify Polio Diagnosis.” Rocky Mount Telegram, October 19, 1956.

“For Crippled Kids - And Those Who Will Be.” The High Point Enterprise, July 11, 1948.

“Ground To Be Broken For Polio Hospital.” Asheville Citizen-Times, July 4, 1948.

Hadaway, Norris. [Speeches on Greensboro’s Response to the Polio Epidemic], c. 1948-49. Guilford Vertical Files. Greensboro Public Library. http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/ref/collection/GoodMed/id/7702.

Harden, John. “North Carolina Wages War on Polio At New Hickory Emergency Hospital.” Greensboro Daily News, August 6, 1944.

Holmes, Martha. “Polio Epidemic: North Carolinians Battle Disease and Build Hospital at Same Time.” Time, Inc., August 30, 1948.

“Immeasurable Enrichment.” The Greensboro Daily News, October 13, 1948.

“Jaycees Back Polio Hospital Drive for Funds - High Point Club to Help in Campaign for $60,000.” The High Point Enterprise, July 9, 1948.

Kemp, Ed. “Convalescent Hospital Here Ordered Enlarged; Patients Now Total 123.” The Greensboro Daily News, July 17, 1948.

“Mercy Bridge Aids Drive for Funds.” The High Point Enterprise, July 15, 1948.

Lee, William B. “Letter Sent to Guilford County Churches Regarding Polio Hospital Drive.” High Point Junior Chamber of Commerce, July 1948.

 “Nation Leader on Percentage of Population,” Greensboro Record, August 31, 1948.

"National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis Service Program." National Negro Health News 14, no. 4 (October-December 1946).

North Carolina State Board of Health. Thirty-Third Biennial Report of the North Carolina State Board of Health 1948-1950. Vol. 33. Winston Prinitng Company, 1950. http://digital.ncdcr.gov/cdm/ref/collection/p249901coll22/id/257341.

Phillips, Robert. [Minutes on the Closure of the Central Carolina Convalescent Hospital], 1959. Cone Health Medical Library, Robert Phillips Collection, box 5, fol. 60. http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/ref/collection/Cone/id/24771.

Prince, C. “An Epic in Humanitarianism,” Greensboro Record, January 3, 1949.

“Race Crisis In Greensboro: A Summing Up.” Greensboro Daily News, September 15, 1963.

Selz C. Mayo, Negro Hospital and Medical Care Facilities in North Carolina. Raleigh: North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station, State College Station, 1945.

“Three Collection Depots Established to Receive Money for Polio Hospital.” The Burlington Daily Times-News, July 20, 1948.

 

Secondary

Brown, Linda B. Belles of Liberty: Gender, Bennett College, and the Civil Rights Movement in Greensboro, North Carolina. Greensboro: Women and Wisdom Press, 2013.

Chafe, William H. Civilities and Civil Rights: Greensboro, North Carolina and the Black Struggle for Freedom. New York: Oxford University Press, 1981.

Oshinsky, David M. Polio: An American Story. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Sink, Alice E. Hidden History of the Piedmont Triad. Charleston, SC: History Press, 2009.

———. The Grit Behind the Miracle: A True Story of the Determination and Hard Work Behind an Emergency Infantile Paralysis Hospital, 1944-1945, Hickory, North Carolina. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1998.

Stevenson, John S. “Everybody’s Hospital: A Brief History of the Central Carolina Convalescent Hospital." North Carolina Medical Journal 27, no. 27 (Jan. 1966): 23-28.

 

Oral Histories That Informed the Essay

Blackledge, Erin. Oral history interview with Gladys Chavis by Erin Blackledge. March 2018. University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Jackson Library, Special Collections and University Archives.

Leuschen, Amelia. Oral history interview with Sandra Sharp by Amelia Leuschen. March 2018. University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Jackson Library, Special Collections and University Archives.

Pfaff, Eugene. Oral history interview with John R. Foster by Eugene Pfaff . Greensboro Voices Collection, Greensboro Public Library. http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/ref/collection/CivilRights/id/821.

Stewart, Chelsea. Oral history interview with Jim Schlosser by Chelsea Stewart. March 2018. University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Jackson Library, Special Collections and University Archives.