Article ID: CBB415344179

Creating Equal Health Opportunity: How the Medical Civil Rights Movement and the Johnson Administration Desegregated U.S. Hospitals (2019)

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The article discusses the role that the U.S. civil rights movement played in the U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson's desegregating hospitals for African Americans during the 1960s, including in regard to his development of the Medicare program. An overview of the Medical Committee for Human Rights' (MCHR's) activism to desegregate U.S. hospitals is provided.

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Authors & Contributors
Metzl, Jonathan Michel
Baker, Robert B.
Hoover, Eddie
Jacobs, Elizabeth A.
O'Brien, William E.
Olakanmi, Ololade
Journals
American Quarterly
Canadian Journal of History
Environment and History
Journal of Black Studies
Journal of the National Medical Association
Social History of Medicine
Publishers
The University of North Carolina Press
Beacon Press
Duke University Press
Éditions Autrement
McFarland
Rutgers University Press
Concepts
African Americans
Civil rights
African Americans and science
Segregation
Medicine and race
Technology and race
People
Mazique, Edward Craig
Wertham, Fredric
Davis, Allison
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, late
19th century
20th century, early
18th century
Places
United States
Southern states (U.S.)
Caribbean
New Orleans (Louisiana, U.S.)
Appalachian region (North America)
Richmond, Virginia
Institutions
American Red Cross
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