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
Reid-Vazquez, Michele
Candacy A. Taylor
Allyson Nadia Field
Blair Murphy Kelley
Elisa Edwards
Concepts
African Americans
African Americans and science
Civil rights
Segregation
Technology and race
Medicine and race
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, late
20th century, early
19th century
18th century
Places
United States
Southern states (U.S.)
Richmond, Virginia
Appalachian region (North America)
New Orleans (Louisiana, U.S.)
Caribbean
Institutions
New Deal (1933-1939)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT
American Red Cross
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