Creating Equal Health Opportunity: How the Medical Civil Rights Movement and the Johnson Administration Desegregated U.S. Hospitals (2019)
Burrows, Vanessa (Author)
Berney, Barbara (Author)
Journal of American History
Volume: 105
Issue: 4
Pages: 885-911
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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