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| Size | 60.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 48,000 items) |
| Abstract | The Delta Health Center was established in the mid-1960s, in the rural, all-African American town of Mound Bayou, Bolivar County, Miss., and served Bolivar, Coahoma, Sunflower, and Washington counties, where poverty was widespread. The Center, which was federally funded through Tufts University and later through the State University of New York at Stony Brook, was one of the first community health centers in the United States. The comprehensive community health center model aimed at building upon traditional health services by addressing the underlying causes of illness, including economic, environmental, and social factors. Originally, Jack Geiger, a white medical doctor, served as project director and John Hatch, a white medical doctor, as director of community health action. The collection contains business files documenting the establishment and operations of the Delta Health Center, including the efforts of John Hatch, Jack Geiger, and others to obtain and maintain federal funding for the Center from the Office of Economic Opportunity; the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare; and the Department of Health and Human Services. Major topics include health care for minorities and impoverished communities, social medicine, nutrition, environmental health, and medical education and training. Materials document the economic, social, and health conditions of the residents of the Mississippi Delta, especially the African American community in northern Bolivar County; John Hatch and L. C. Dorsey's efforts with the North Bolivar County Cooperative Farm and Cannery; the role of the North Bolivar County Health and Civic Improvement Council; and the Delta Health Center's relationship with other health facilities, medical schools, and outreach programs, including the Mound Bayou Community Hospital (with which it merged in 1972), Meharry Medical College, the Delta Ministry, and the Columbia Point Health Center (now the Geiger-Gibson Community Health Center), and others. Included are administrative records, correspondence, financial materials, grant proposals, legal materials, personnel files, reports, studies, education and training materials, publicity materials, photographs, printed matter, and other items. Of note are newspaper articles, protest photographs, and other items related to Mississippi Governor Bill Waller's vetos of the Delta Community Health Center and Hospital's federal funding, and photographs of the Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights marches in March 1965. Audio recordings include speeches of and interviews with persons connected with the Delta Health Center, among them director Andrew James. Also included is a recording of Stokeley Carmichael speaking at North Carolina Central University in March 1970; a recording of a 1968 speech by Martin Luther King Jr. at the Delta Ministry's Mount Beulah Conference Center in Edwards, Miss; and a website with an organizational history and information about services, locations, and providers. |
| Creator | Delta Health Center. |
| Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
| Language | English. |
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The Delta Health Center (previously called the Tufts-Delta Health Center, the Delta Community Health Center, and the Mound Bayou Community Hospital and Delta Health Center) was started in the rural, all-African American town of Mound Bayou, Bolivar County, Miss., and served Bolivar, Coahoma, Sunflower, and Washington counties, where poverty is widespread. The center, which was federally funded through Tufts University and later through the State University of New York at Stony Brook, was one of the first community health centers in the United States. The comprehensive community or neighborhood health center model aimed at building upon traditional health services by addressing the underlying causes of illness, including economic, environmental, and social factors. The Delta Health Center was largely supported by grants from federal programs, particularly those administered through the Office of Economic Opportunity, the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, and the Department of Health and Human Services.
Funding for the center was initially secured in 1965 from the Office of Economic Opportunity by two Tufts University physicians, Jack Geiger and Count Gibson. As a founding member of the Medical Committee for Human Rights, Geiger had served as field coordinator and medical director for several civil rights efforts in the south, with which Gibson was also involved, including Mississippi Freedom Summer in 1964 and the Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights marches in 1965. While providing medical care for civil rights workers, Geiger was also exposed to the extreme poverty and ill health that plagued local residents in the rural South. Geiger was reminded of his prior experience at community health centers in rural Natal, South Africa, where he studied social medicine with Sidney and Emily Kark as a medical student in the late 1950s. He realized that bringing the community health model to the United States could better serve extremely impoverished communities, like those in Mississippi and elsewhere. Soon after, Geiger, working with Tufts University, approached Sandy Kravitz and Sargent Shriver of the newly formed Office of Economic Opportunity with his proposal to start such a center, and was able to secure enough funding to go ahead with the project. The original grant also provided for a similar community health center in the Columbia Point housing project in Boston, Mass. (now called the Geiger-Gibson Community Health Center). The two centers, which were the first community health centers in the United States, were a part of the Tufts Comprehensive Community Health Action Program, aimed at intervening in the cycle of extreme poverty, ill health, unemployment, and illiteracy through comprehensive health services. Jack Geiger, a white medical doctor at Tufts University, served as the project director, and John Hatch, also a white medical doctor at Tufts, served as the director of community health action. Clinical work at the Delta Health Center began in November 1967. Initially, patients were served in a converted church parsonage. In 1968, the center moved into a new facility, a renovation of an unfinished structure that was originally built to serve as the new location for J. P. Campbell College of Jackson, Miss.
In addition to providing standard health services, the Delta Health Center provided a number of other services aimed at remedying the poor social, economic, and environmental conditions that were the cause of many health problems in their service area. Delta Health Center staff dug water wells and installed pumps, built privies, dug drainage ditches, and repaired and provided screens for homes. The North Bolivar County Farm Cooperative was also established, headed by John Hatch and L. C. Dorsey, in order to provide food and economic stability for the local community. The cooperative later included a cannery, aimed at selling canned green beans, black-eyed peas, and other southern staples or "soul food" to southern African Americans who had migrated to northern cities. The Afro-American Bookstore was also started under the cooperative. Educational activities at the Delta Health Center included training local residents as community health assistants, conducting descriptive and analytic research, hosting summer internship programs for visiting medical students, and hosting the Systematic Training and Redevelopment (STAR) Program. There were also transportation, nutrition, and supplemental food programs.
The North Bolivar County Health and Civic Improvement Council served as the governing body for the Delta Heath Center. Comprised of ten local health associations, the Health Council was established in 1968 to ensure that local residents were directly involved the health center and in efforts to raise health standards; to improve employment standards, housing conditions, economic standards; and to engage in other community development activities.
The Office of Economic Opportunity demanded a merger in 1971 between the Delta Health Center and the Mound Bayou Community Hospital, which had been formed in the late 1960s from the failing Taborian and Sara Brown Memorial Hospitals. Despite resistance by Delta Health Center directors, the two entities merged in 1972 to form the Delta Community Hospital and Health Center, Inc. A separate board of directors was formed as a part of the merger, which replaced the North Bolivar County Health and Civic Improvement Council as the governing body.
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Business files of the Delta Health Center, a rural community health center in Mound Bayou, Bolivar County, Miss. Materials document the establishment and operations of the Delta Health Center as the first rural community health center in the United States, including the efforts of Jack Geiger, John Hatch, Count Gibson, and others to obtain and maintain federal funding for the center from the Office of Economic Opportunity; the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare; and the Department of Health and Human Services. Major topics include health care for minorities and impoverished communities, social medicine, nutrition, environmental health, and medical education and training. The materials document the economic, social, and health conditions of the residents of the Mississippi Delta, especially regarding the African American community in northern Bolivar County; programs and services offered by the center focused on nutrition, economic development, housing, environmental health, transportation, and education; John Hatch and L. C. Dorsey's efforts with the North Bolivar County Cooperative Farm and Cannery; the role of the North Bolivar County Health and Civic Improvement Council; and the Delta Health Center's relationship with other health facilities, medical schools, and outreach programs, including the Mound Bayou Community Hospital (with which it merged in 1972), Meharry Medical College, the Delta Ministry, the Head Start Program, Tufts University, the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and the Columbia Point Health Center (now the Geiger-Gibson Community Health Center), which was established under the same grant, among others. Included are administrative records, agreements, financial materials, grant proposals, legal materials, personnel files, reports, correspondence, studies, reference materials on health in Mississippi, education and training materials, publicity materials, photographs, printed matter, and other items. Delta Ministry files document racial violence in Mississippi, voter registration efforts, strikes, and the "Freedom City" movement, among other topics.
Of note are materials regarding the treatment of African Americans in health care facilities and the socioeconomic stratification between races in Mississippi; early letters of support for the Delta Health Center from Bolivar County residents; newspaper articles, protest photographs, and other items related to Mississippi Governor William Waller's veto of the Delta Community Health Center and Hospital's federal funding in 1972 and 1973; and photographs of the Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights marches in March, 1965.
Audio recordings include speeches and discussions of various persons, 1970-1971 and undated, among them a recording of Stokeley Carmichael speaking at North Carolina Central University in March 1970. There are also recorded interviews with various persons connected with the Delta Health Center, including director Andrew James, and a recording of a speech by Martin Luther King Jr. given at the Delta Ministry's Mount Beulah Conference Center in Edwards, Miss., 16 February 1968.
There is also a a website with an organizational history and information about services, locations, and providers.
Materials have been arranged in three series: Series 1. Office files received from Jack Geiger, 1956-1980; Series 2. Office files received from John Hatch, 1968-1990; Series 3. Audio recordings; and Series 4. Delta Health Center website.
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Series 1. Office files received from Jack Geiger, 1956-1980.
Arrangement: for the most part, original arrangement and file names have been maintained as received from Jack Geiger.
Business files of the Delta Health Center a community health center located in Mound Bayou, Miss. Materials document the establishment of the Delta Health Center as the first rural community health center in the United States, especially regarding the efforts of John Hatch, Jack Geiger, and others to obtain and maintain federal funding for the center from the Office of Economic Opportunity; the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare; and the Department of Health and Human Services. The materials also document the economic, social, and health conditions of the Mississippi Delta, especially regarding the African American community in northern Bolivar County; the various social, environmental, and economic programs offered by the center, especially the North Bolivar County Cooperative Farm and Cannery and the North Bolivar County Health and Civic Improvement Council; and the Delta Health Center's relationship with other health facilities and medical schools, including the Mound Bayou Community Hospital (with which it merged in 1972), Meharry Medical College, the Sara Brown Memorial Hospital, and the Taborian Hospital. Includes administrative records, budget materials, grant proposals, personnel files, reports, correspondence, studies, education and training materials, publicity materials, photographs, printed matter, and other items.
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Subseries 1.1. Genesis, 1960-1976.
Arrangement: alphabetical. Note that, for the most part, the original arrangement and file titles have been maintained.
Files relate to the establishment of the Delta Health Center and early years of operation. Of note are background and reference materials on the state of health care in the rural south, Mississippi in particular; census data on white and African American communities in this region; and materials regarding an economic boycott against white merchants in Rosedale, Miss., held by the local African American community in protest of their poor living conditions in 1970. Also included are papers that document the Delta Health Center's relationship with neighboring health facilities, including the Mound Bayou Community Hospital, the Taborian Hospital, and the Sara Brown Memorial Hospital.
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Agreements, 1967-1969Includes charter of incorporation, bylaws, and other agreements related to the Mound Bayou Community Hospital. |
Background: Delta white community, 1966-1970Includes a few letters to Delta Health Center director Andrew James and Deputy Director David Weeks, among others, regarding the economic boycott against white merchants in Rosedale, Miss., held by the local African American community in protest of their poor living conditions in 1970. Also inlcuded are a 1970 conference program on "Better Health Care of Poor People in Mississippi"; a report of an interview with Dr. Dorothy Ferebee, who was involved in health efforts in Bolivar County, Miss., from 1935 to 1941 with the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority; and other items. |
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Board of directors, 1967-1976Includes meeting minutes and related material. There is also a 1977 summary of the health of Mississippians and health resources in the state. |
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Building construction, 1967-1971 |
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Building and space improvements, 1969 |
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Delta Health Center: construction documents, 1967-1968Includes status reports and utilities information. |
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Delta Health Center: construction leases, 1967 |
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Delta Health Center: construction leases, 1968 |
Delta Health Center: development: J. P. Campbell College, 1966 |
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Delta Health Center: rental agreements, 1967 |
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Executive committee meetings, 1969 |
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Maps: Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Bolivar County, Miss. |
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Mississippi: articles, pamphlets, and other printed material, 1963-1971Topics include socioeconomic conditions and education for African Americans, health conditions in Mississippi, nutrition, legal issues, Medicaid, and medical doctors in Mississippi, with a few items published by the Delta Health Center. |
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Mississippi background: Cleveland, Panola County, Pax Christie, and Sunflower County, 1965-1966 |
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Mississippi: Bolivar County, Miss., census data, circa 1960s |
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Mississippi: Bolivar County field notes, 1967Contains "Heath Education Implications in the Proposed Mound Bayou Mississippi Health Center" and letters regarding a progress report meeting about the Mound Bayou Health Center with the local community. |
Mississippi: child development group, 1966-1967 |
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Mississippi: mental health, 1966-1967 |
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Mississippi reference: Board of Health statistics, 1960-1968 |
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Mississippi reference: Bolivar County, Miss., census highlights, 1968 |
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Mississippi reference: economic study: Mound Bayou Industry Feasibility, 1965 |
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Mississippi reference: education study: Mississippi, 1967 |
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Mississippi reference: "Census of Negro Population in Bolivar County, Miss.," 1968 |
Mississippi reference: "Health in Rural Mississippi," 1964From the Tufts Colloquium on Social Science and Medicine |
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Mississippi reference: migration studies, 1963-1967 |
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Mississippi: Systematic Training and Redevelopment (STAR) Program, 1965-1967 |
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Mound Bayou Community Hospital: board of directors election records, 1973 |
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Mound Bayou Community Hospital: construction documents: 1967-1969Includes correspondence, floor plans, appraisals of the Taborian Hospital and the Sara Brown Memorial Hospital, and other documents. |
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Mound Bayou Community Hospital: correspondence, 1967-1969Discusses the merger of the Taborian and Sara Brown Hospitals, the establishment of the Delta Health Center, the formation of the board of directors, the revision of the bylaws, the use of Office of Economic Opportunity funds, policies, staffing, salaries, and other topics. |
Mound Bayou Community Hospital: publicity and background, 1966-1969 |
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Mound Bayou Community Hospital: reimbursements and budget revision, 1968-1969 |
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Mound Bayou Community Hospital: reports, 1967-1968 |
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Mound Bayou Community Hospital: reports, 1968-1969 |
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Mound Bayou Investment Corporation, 1967-1974 |
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Site selection, 1965-1966 |
Tufts University Comprehensive Community Health Action Program: project plan, 1965-1966 |
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Town of Rosedale: boycott, 1970Includes material regarding an economic boycott against white merchants in Rosedale, Miss., held by the local African American community in protest of their poor living conditions. |
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Subseries 1.2. Town of Mound Bayou, 1959-1980.
Arrangement: alphabetical. Note that, for the most part, the original arrangement and file titles have been maintained.
Files include correspondence, reports, plans, proposals, meeting minutes, and other materials representing topics such as funding, especially the 1972 merger of Delta Health Center and Mound Bayou Community Hospital; operational issues; and student training. Materials document the relationship between the Delta Health Center and Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tenn.; Mound Bayou Community Hospital; the Office of Economic Opportunity; and the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Frequent correspondents include Jack Geiger, John Hatch, Andrew James, Herman Johnson, attorney A. Spencer Gilbert, Leon Cooper of the Office of Economic Opportunity, and William B. Crockett of the North Bolivar County Health and Civic Improvement Council. Also of note are materials regarding the treatment of African Americans in health care facilities and the socioeconomic stratification between races in Mississippi, found in the "Office of Economic Opportunity documents," " Mississippi data," and "North Bolivar County Civic and Health Improvement Council" files.
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Alpha Kappa Alpha, 1979-1980 |
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Correspondence and related materials, 1971-1974Correspondence chiefly discusses the 1972 merger of Delta Health Center and Mound Bayou Community Hospital, proposed by the Office of Economic Opportunity; the transfer of the Office of Economic Opportunity grant from Tufts University to the State University of New York at Stony Brook; and fund-seeking. Other topics include the Supplemental Food Program, the North Bolivar County Health and Civic Improvement Council, revisions of the bylaws, the Delta Health Center's financial crisis, fire protection, budget processing, and various problems and conflicts faced by the Delta Health Center, including William Waller's 1972 veto of the center's federal funding. Frequent correspondents include Jack Geiger, John Hatch, Andrew James, attorney A. Spencer Gilbert, Leon Cooper of the Office of Economic Opportunity, and William B. Crockett of the North Bolivar County Health and Civic Improvement Council. There are also scattered meeting minutes. Of note is a copy of a letter from an anonymous African American nurse to A. E. Albritton advocating for the Delta Health Center, 31 July 1972; and a 29 December 1975 letter from Mound Bayou resident Truman White to Jack Geiger, describing corruption in the health center since its merger with the hospital, and asking for Geiger's sympathy and help. |
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Johnson, Herman, 1974-1975Correspondence with and materials related to Johnson, vice-mayor and alderman of Mound Bayou, Miss. |
Master plan, 1967-1973Includes correspondence, handwritten notes, and other materials regarding community improvement programs in Mound Bayou, Miss.; a request from Meharry Medical College for assistance from Delta Health Center staff in training visiting health workers from Africa; copies of hand-drawn organizational and budget charts for the North Bolivar County Health and Civic Improvement Council; and Delta Health Center reports. |
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Meharry Medical College: correspondence and related materials, 1966-1969Correspondence, plans, proposals, meeting minutes, and other materials document the Meharry Medical College's supportive role in helping to develop the Delta Health Center as part of an Office of Economic Opportunity grant that also provided for the development of a Neighborhood Health Center in Nashville, Tenn. Frequent correspondents include Jack Geiger, Meharry Medical College Chairman Dr. Matthew Walker, and Dr. Leslie A. Falk. |
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Meharry Medical College: correspondence and related materials, 1970-1972Includes materials regarding a proposal for the establishment of a Maternal and Child Care Center at Meharry Medical College. |
Meharry Medical College: Office of Economic Opportunity documents |
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Mound Bayou Community Hospital: other papers, 1966-1979Includes background information on Meharry Medical College, a brochure, a lecture schedule, correspondence regarding the relationship between Tufts University and Meharry Medical College, and other items. |
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Meharry Medical College: proposals and reports, 1966-1967 |
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Meharry Medical College: publicity |
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Mississippi data, 1959-1973Includes demographic and health statistics, chiefly for Bolivar County, Miss.; a 1973 study of the development, governmental organization, and finances of the city of Mound Bayou, Miss.; and data comparing death rates of African Americans and whites in Mississippi. |
Mississippi Delta Health Plan Report, 1972 |
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Mound Bayou: Community Health Program documents, 1965-1970Includes documents regarding the establishment and management of community health and medical education programs at various schools. |
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Mound Bayou Community Hospital and Delta Health Center: bylaws and grievance procedures, 1969, 1972 |
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Mound Bayou Community Hospital: meeting minutes and related materials, 1967-1969Includes copies of the bylaws of the Mound Bayou Community Hospital and minutes from the board of directors, executive committee, and other meetings. |
Mound Bayou Community Hospital: budget and Office of Economic Opportunity proposal, 1969-1970 |
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Mound Bayou Community Hospital: brochures |
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Mound Bayou Community Hospital: Community Action Program statements, 1972 |
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Mound Bayou Community Hospital: eligibility requirements and Utilization CommitteeRefers to Delta Health Center patient eligibility for referral to Mound Bayou Community Hospital, and prevention of unnecessary admission of patients in Mound Bayou Community Hospital. |
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Mound Bayou Development Corporation, 1969 |
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North Bolivar County Civic and Health Improvement CouncilIncludes organizational charts and meeting minutes covering topics such as the transfer of the Delta Health Center's Office of Economic Opportunity grant from Tufts University to the State University of New York at Stony Brook, the merger of Delta Health Center and Mound Bayou Community Hospital, the selection of a new project director, the budget, revisions of the bylaws and the personnel policy, and a brief report on the socioeconomic stratification between races in Shaw, Miss. |
Notes, 1967, 1972 |
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Office of Economic Opportunity documents, 1968-1969Includes documentation, observations, correspondence, and related material criticizing the level of medical care provided at the Mound Bayou Community Hospital, particularly as experienced by African American patients. Documentation was prepared by the Delta Health Center and sent to the Office of Economic Opportunity. |
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Oram International Corporation, 1976-1977Chiefly includes correspondence pertaining to the efforts of the National Committee to Save Mound Bayou Community Hospital. |
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Sara Brown Hospital and Taborian Hospital proposals and contracts, 1966 |
State University of New York at Stony Brook: administration of grant, 1971-1972 |
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State University of New York at Stony Brook: environmental issues, 1970-1971 |
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State University of New York at Stony Brook: legal documents, 1968, 1971Includes grant transfer documents and the Delta Health Center's delegate agency contract. |
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State University of New York at Stony Brook: medical curriculum 1974-1977 |
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State University of New York at Stony Brook: printed material, 1970s |
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Town planning, 1966-1971 |
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University of Wisconsin medical student reports, 1972Reports discuss student's experiences with and responses to medical training, health care delivery systems, the rural South, and related topics. |
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Subseries 1.3. Delta Health Center, 1962-1978.
Restriction: Some files in this series are closed to researchers until 70 years after the last date of materials in each grouping (see descriptions below). Prior to those dates, researchers may gain access to redacted versions of these closed files. The redaction process will remove personally identifying information, and the costs associated with redaction will be paid by the requesting researcher. Please be advised that the redaction process can be lengthy, and depending on the volume and complexity of the documents, redaction may take a few weeks or even a few months to complete. Should you require access to these documents, please contact Research and Instructional Services staff as early in your research process as possible.
Arrangement: alphabetical. Note that, for the most part, the original arrangement and file titles have been maintained.
Administrative files of the Delta Health Center include reports, budget materials, policies, correspondence, operational data, personnel files, and materials related to land and funding. Education and training materials relate primarily to summer fellowship and exchange programs at the Delta Health Center for medical students and medical courses and lectures at Mary Holmes College. There are also files on supplemental programs offered by the Delta Health Center in areas such as clinical services, nutrition, economic development, housing, environmental health, transportation, and others.
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Activities reports, 1973Compiled by research, planning, and evaluation departments. Topics include community development, environmental health, nutrition, youth affairs, and others. |
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Administration, 1969-1971Includes a management reports, Meharry Medical College letterheads, and files on supplies, financial management, insurance, the pharmacy, telephone use, and third-party payment procedures. |
Budget materials, 1962-1972 |
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Budget materials: operating budget, 1972 |
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Budget materials, 1976-1978 |
Clinic data, 1969-1972Contains information about the Delta Health Center's clinic hours, policies, services, and patient traffic. |
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Correspondence: Cohen, Roger |
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Correspondence: O'Rourke, W. E. |
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Correspondence: Stevens, Francis |
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Correspondence: Toomey, Edward Graham |
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Correspondence: pending matters, 1966-1968Contains correspondence that appears to deal with various matters at Delta Health Center for which advice or some other response was needed. |
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Correspondence: otherIncludes letters of support, correspondence regarding contributions and visits to the Delta Health Center, and letters from Dr. Robert Smith of Jackson, Miss. |
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Education and training: in-house trainingIncludes materials regarding in-house training at the Delta Health Center, a work-study traineeship program for African American students of rural Mississippi high schools, and other items. |
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Education and training: lectures and exams: sanitarian interns, 1970-1971 |
Education and training: Mary Homes College: correspondence, 1972 |
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Education and training: Mary Homes College: course outlines, 1969-1970 |
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Education and training: medical student programIncludes financial materials, correspondence, reports, evaluations, and other items regarding summer fellowship programs and a medical student exchange program with the University of Wisconsin. |
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Education and training: medical student program: family case studies, 1968 (3 folders)RESTRICTED: This file is closed to researchers until 2038. Prior to 2038, researchers may gain access to redacted versions of these closed files. The redaction process will remove personally identifying information, and the costs associated with redaction will be paid by the requesting researcher. Please be advised that the redaction process can be lengthy, and depending on the volume and complexity of the documents, redaction may take a few weeks or even a few months to complete. Should you require access to these documents, please contact Research and Instructional Services staff as early in your research process as possible. |
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Education and training: "New Careers"Contains the "New Careers" bulletin and other brochures and pamphlets related to careers in health services. |
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Education and training: outside programsSubfiles: Delta students, Andover Summer Sessions for Delta students, the Ford Foundation, government training, health education literature, the Harvard Medical School Summer Program, higher education for Delta students, Mary Holmes College, the Systematic Training and Redevelopment (STAR) Program, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the State University of New York at Stony Brook. |
Education and training: outside student recruitmentIncludes correspondence and related material regarding nursing students and African American medical student recruitment. |
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Education and training: panel discussion: Cleveland Student Health Project |
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Education and training: parasitological survey: Deeson, Miss. |
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Education and training: presentations, 1969-1971 |
Education and training: summer work and enrichment program, 1971 |
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Education and training: training, 1969-1971 |
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First quarterly report, 1974 (complete tables) |
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Grievance procedures and staff |
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Land and funding, 1975-1977Contains material regarding land agreements with Tufts University, excerpts of sections of public law regarding community health centers, Medicaid reports, drafts of letters seeking funding from the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, and a proposal for a grant from the Health for Underserved Rural Areas program, among other items. |
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Legal: correspondence and related materials, 1967-1971Includes correspondence with attorneys A. Spencer Gilbert, Barry Powell, and the Nutter, McClennen, & Fish law firm. Legal matters addressed include the incorporation of Delta Health Center, insurance matters, real estate arrangements, various agreements, the formation of the Tufts-Delta Trust, and conditions of the Office of Economic Opportunity grant. |
Memoranda and reports, 1968 |
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Personnel: employment advertisements, applications, and job descriptions, 1968-1971 |
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Personnel: miscellaneousContains correspondence, primarily from Jack Geiger, regarding leave approvals and other materials regarding the election of Richard Coleman, an African American Shelby, Miss., resident and Delta Health Center sanitarian to the Bolivar County Board of Education. |
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Personnel: policies and fringe benefitsIncludes information on policies for retirement, hiring, overtime, and other personnel issues. |
Personnel: recommendations and staff and faculty appointments |
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Personnel: salariesIncludes increase guidelines, change forms, and other materials. |
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Personnel: salary charts |
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Personnel: staff recruitment, 1966-1972 |
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Programs: Clinical Services Division, 1968-1973Contains files on the Delta Health Center nursing and obstetrics and gynecology departments, family health care groups, the pharmacy committee, the reference library, and seminar speakers. Also contains memoranda and correspondence, minutes of physician meetings, and a 1970 Clinical Services Division progress report. |
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Programs: Economic Development |
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Programs: Environmental Health, 1969-1971Includes correspondence, reports, and other administrative files on the Sanitation and Sanitarian Internship programs and other topics in environmental health. |
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Programs: Family Services to Youthful Offenders, 1970-1971 (1 folder)RESTRICTED: This file is closed to researchers until 2041. Prior to 2041, researchers may gain access to redacted versions of these closed files. The redaction process will remove personally identifying information, and the costs associated with redaction will be paid by the requesting researcher. Please be advised that the redaction process can be lengthy, and depending on the volume and complexity of the documents, redaction may take a few weeks or even a few months to complete. Should you require access to these documents, please contact Research and Instructional Services staff as early in your research process as possible. |
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Programs: Housing Department |
Programs: newsletters, 1969-1971Includes issues of the "Delta Health Center Digest," 1969-1970; the "Delta Health Center Newsletter," 1971; and an issue of the "Delta-Gram," circa early 1970s.
Issue of the Tufts-Delta Health Center Digest, November 1969 |
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Programs: Nutrition Department |
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Programs: Research and Evaluation |
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Programs: Supplemental Food Program |
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Programs: Transportation Department |
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Programs: Transportation of inmates for medical services, 1974-1976 (4 folders)RESTRICTED: This file is closed to researchers until 2046. Prior to 2046, researchers may gain access to redacted versions of these closed files. The redaction process will remove personally identifying information, and the costs associated with redaction will be paid by the requesting researcher. Please be advised that the redaction process can be lengthy, and depending on the volume and complexity of the documents, redaction may take a few weeks or even a few months to complete. Should you require access to these documents, please contact Research and Instructional Services staff as early in your research process as possible. |
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State University of New York at Stony Brook: state budget and transfer travel, 1971 |
State University of New York at Stony Brook, Departments: programmatic |
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Weeks, David E.: memoranda, 1969 |
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Subseries 1.4. Tufts Comprehensive Community Health Action Program, 1964-1973.
Arrangement: chronological. Note that, for the most part, the original arrangement and file titles have been maintained.
Files of the Tufts Comprehensive Community Health Action Program, through which the Delta Health Center and Columbia Point Health Center received funding from the Office of Economic Opportunity, include drafts of grant proposals, budgets, site visit reports, quarterly reports and other reports of the Delta Health Center, letters of support, a 1968 "Census of Negro Population in Bolivar County, Mississippi," and other related materials.
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Subseries 1.5. North Bolivar County Farm Cooperative and Cannery and North Bolivar County
Health and Civic Improvement Council, 1968-1972.
Arrangement: alphabetical. Note that, for the most part, the original arrangement and file titles have been maintained.
Files document the founding and operations of, and community served by, the North Bolivar County Farm Cooperative and Cannery and the North Bolivar County Health and Civic Improvement Council. Included are proposals, reports by John Hatch and L. C. Dorsey, correspondence, agreements, financial statements, bylaws, pamphlets, photographs, publicity materials, articles, flyers, newsletters, organizational charts, studies, legal materials, and other items. There is also a book list and flyer for the cooperative's Afro-American Bookstore.
| Box 40 |
Cannery: feasibility study, 1967 |
Cannery: proposal, 1969-1970 |
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| Box 41 |
Cannery reports: Food-processing in the Mississippi Delta, 1970A study and progress report with recommendations for further action for the North Bolivar County Farm Cooperative |
| Box 39 |
Farm Cooperative operations: Office of Economic Opportunity birth announcement, 1968 |
Farm Cooperative operations: correspondence, 1969-1971 |
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Farm Cooperative operations: financial and legal materialsIncludes financial statements, agreements, and audit materials. |
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Farm Cooperative operations: organizationIncludes articles of association, bylaws, curriculum vitae, organization charts, and personnel policies. |
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Farm Cooperative operations: programIncludes an organizing booklet, crop projections, meeting minutes, and a book list and flyer for the Co-op Afro-American Bookstore. |
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| Box 40 |
Farm Cooperative proposals and reports: grant materials, 1970-1971 |
Farm Cooperative proposals and reports, 1969Includes progress reports prepared by John Hatch and L. C. Dorsey |
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Farm Cooperative proposals and reports, 1969-1970 |
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Farm Cooperative proposals and reports: project plan and supporting data |
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Farm Cooperative proposals and reports: quarterly report, 1973 |
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Farm Cooperative proposals and reports: otherIncludes background information on and a pamphlet about the cooperative, "People in the Co-op," by L. C. Dorsey and James O. Taylor, and material regarding problem of hunger in the Mississippi Delta. |
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| Box 41 |
Health Council: proposals and progress reports, 1969-1972 |
Health Council: proposals and progress reports, extras |
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| Box 42 |
Health Council: programIncludes biographical sketches of local residents working at the health center, budget materials, correspondence, newsletters, organizational charts, Health Association reports, and other program materials. |
Health Council: legal materialsIncludes copies of the Health Council's bylaws, charter, lease contracts, and other legal materials. |
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Health Council: daycareIncludes materials regarding the Head Start Program, proposals, progress reports, organizational charts and other items. |
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Subseries 1.6. Studies, articles, reports, and related materials, 1950s-1970s.
Arrangement: by material type. Note that, for the most part, the original arrangement and file titles have been maintained.
Includes newsletters, census data, research notes, brochures, pamphlets, clippings, scholarly articles, drafts, reports, field research, teaching materials, and other items, authored by John Hatch, Andrew James, and others, on topics such as health care for minorities, community-based health services, social medicine in South Africa, nutrition, medical education and training, medical programs at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and related topics.
| Box 42 |
Articles by John Hatch |
Articles and printed material: Jimmy Carter |
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Articles and printed material: Mississippi publicity |
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| Box 43 |
Articles and printed material: Peter Lazes |
Articles and printed material: reading materials |
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Articles and reportsIncludes articles, reports, and newsletters. There are a few Department of Labor Regional Reports, and reports and articles on health topics including the intellectual development of children, health care for minorities, and self-help. |
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| Box 44 |
Articles on social change |
Articles: research and evaluation |
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Bolivar County census data, statistical maps, and related materials |
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Census Use Study: Social and Health Indicators System |
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Clippings: training of health workers |
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Hypertension grant proposal |
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Institute of Current World Affairs |
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Medical care: quality evaluation cards |
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Occupational Health Guide |
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| Box 45 |
Report filesIncludes special reports from the Southern Regional Council on "Hungry Children" and "Cooperatives, Credit Unions, and Poor People;" and other reports and articles on health care in Africa |
Reprints A-K, Q-ZIncludes articles on health care as it relates to race and social status, community and comprehensive health programs, social medicine, medical care case studies from Yugoslavia and Nigeria, and other medical topics. |
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Research: blood pressure |
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Research: hypertension |
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| Box 46 |
Research: stress |
Research: miscellaneousIncludes a fiscal report from the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare; a letter organizing a protest demonstration against Dr. Saul Krugman who was to receive the Preventive Medicine Award; an estimate of the cost of a national health insurance program, and other items. |
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Steven Jones: study in medical education reform |
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Studies: American Public Health Association task force, 1972 |
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Studies: nutrition |
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Studies by Delta Health Center personnelIncludes material by Roger Cohen, John Hatch, Leonard Inge, Andrew James, and Florence Halpern. |
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| Box 47 |
Studies: Delta Health Center publicationsIncludes a survey about mosquitoes in Mississippi, youth program proposals, and other publications by the Delta Health Center. |
Studies: Delta Health Center studies and reportsIncludes reports on the utilization of local doctors, community organizing, the educational condition of Deeson, Miss. youths, and orthopedics in impoverished areas. |
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Studies: otherIncludes a manuscript about the Delta Health Center, the Cooperative Farm, and the Cannery; an population baseline survey of Atlanta, Ga.; responses to a Geomet study comparing responses to African American and white interviewers; a senate report on rural housing, and a study of family planning services in Louisiana. |
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State University of New York at Stony Brook: Department of Community Medicine |
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State University of New York at Stony Brook: Department of Medicine |
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State University of New York at Stony Brook: general administration |
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State University of New York at Stony Brook: minority admissions |
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State University of New York at Stony Brook: Sidel referencesContains a copies of a section from, "Inequality and Health: Problems and Solutions," which references an article by Victor Sidel. |
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| Box 48 |
Teaching materialsIncludes teaching schedules, outlines of course topics, a manuscript submitted to the "American Journal of Public Health," notes and other materials related to seminars on community medicine and health and society, and other items. |
Teaching materials: printed matterIncludes several publications and newsletters on medical education and other medical topics. |
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Teaching materials: social medicine in South Africa, 1956Includes field research, observations, and statistics on health, housing, lifestyle of communities primarily in Durban, South Africa. Materials appear to be associated with Jack Geiger's involvement with the Department of Preventative and Family Medicine at the University of Natal. |
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Teaching materials: Tufts University School of MedicineIncludes suggested reading and course outlines for a course in social medicine. |
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Tufts Urban Studies Planning Committee |
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Subseries 1.7. Office of Economic Opportunity, 1965-1972.
Arrangement: for the most part, the original arrangement and file titles have been maintained.
Includes materials related to the federal funding of the Delta Health Center and the Columbia Point Health Center through the Office of Economic Opportunity. Included are administrative and budget materials, correspondence, policies, directives, pamphlets, surveys, reports, and files on the Community Action Program, legal services, the poverty program, and other programs.
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Subseries 1.8. Photographs and publicity materials, 1956-1973.
Arrangement: by material type. Note that, for the most part, the original arrangement and file titles have been maintained. Box number 56 is not used.
Includes clippings, articles, pamphlets, brochures, news releases, correspondence, and other publicity materials chiefly related to the Delta Health Center and the Columbia Point Health Center in Boston, Mass. Of note are newspaper articles and other items related to Mississippi Governor William Waller's veto of the Delta Community Health Center and Hospital's funding through the Office of Economic Opportunity in 1972. Photographs depict Delta Health Center and Columbia Point staff, facilities, and construction; Delta Health Center patients receiving treatment in their homes; meetings; housing in Mississippi; John Hatch and Melvin Gant at the North Bolivar County Cooperative Farm; and the Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights marches that took place in March, 1965, including an image of Martin Luther King Jr. speaking at the Alabama State Capitol at the conclusion of the third march.
| Box 55 |
Articles and clippings, 1968-1971 |
Clippings: health care, general |
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Clippings: Mississippi publicity |
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Clippings: other clippings and related material |
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| Image Box IB-4613/1 |
Negatives and slides: Delta Health Center construction progress |
Photographs and slides: Columbia Point |
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Photographs: Dan Bernstein, late 1960sIncludes photographs by Dan Bernstein of Andrew James, Jack Geiger, Delta Health Center construction, Jack Geiger and other medical professionals treating a dehydrated baby and other patients in the Delta Health Center, two men loading a stretcher into a station wagon, Health Council and other meetings, two men operating a water pump, John Hatch and Melvin Gant at the North Bolivar County Cooperative Farm, and "field nursing" photographs of nurses caring for local residents in their homes. |
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Photographs: J. P. Campbell CollegeIncludes photographs of the construction of the Delta Health Center, and a photograph of an African boy suffering from Kwashiorkor. |
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Photographs: southern photographsIncludes a set of photographs from the Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights marches that took place in Alabama in March, 1965. Images are of a police barricade, marchers lined up on the highway, several men carrying a woman who has fainted or been injured, amputee marcher Jim Leatherer standing by a bonfire, and Martin Luther King Jr. delivering a speech at the Alabama State Capitol at the conclusion of the final march. There are also photographs of housing, a cotton gin, and Delta Health Center construction in Mound Bayou, Mississippi, 1966. |
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Pictures and booklets: Columbia Point and Delta Health Center |
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| Box 57 |
Publicity: Columbia Point Health CenterIncludes clippings, journal articles, fact sheets, news releases, pamphlets, photographs, and other publicity materials. Photographs are of patients, medical staff, the health center facilities, the Columbia Point community and housing, a parade, church services, and meetings. |
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Box 57Box 58 |
Publicity: Delta Health CenterIncludes clippings, journal articles, correspondence, and other publicity materials. Of note are a number articles and a few statements and notes about Mississippi Governor William Waller's veto of the Delta Community Health Center and Hospital's Office of Economic Opportunity grant, and subsequent protests, in 1972. Photographs of a veto protest that took place in Jackson, Mississippi can be found in Box 119 of this collection, in the folder titled "Photographs: veto protest, July 1972" |
| Box 58 |
Publicity: Tufts-New England Medical Center |
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Box 58Box 59 |
Printed materials: 1966-1972Includes brochures, newsletters, and other items related to pregnancy and other health topics. |
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Subseries 1.9. Delta Ministries and other projects, 1964-1974.
Arrangement: alphabetical. Note that, for the most part, the original arrangement and file titles have been maintained.
Includes budgets, reports, newsletters, pamphlets, correspondence, and other materials of the Delta Ministry, representing topics such as racial violnence in Mississippi, voter registration, strikes, and the "Freedom City" movement. Also included are subject files on other community health centers, cooperative clinics, and related projects from other areas in the South.
| Box 59 |
Delta Ministry, 1964-1970Includes budgets; correspondence; commission meeting minutes; newsletters; pamphlets, brochures, and reports. Topics include instances of racial violence in Mississippi; voter registration; the Delta Ministry's "Freedom City" movement; Freedomcrafts; the Head Start Program, a Greenville, Miss., strike in 1965; and "Tent City" or "Strike City," a camp of displaced or evicted plantation workers who eventually squatted in the abandoned Greenville Air Force Base, and who were promptly forced to vacate. |
Alton Park Health Center, Chattanooga, Tenn. |
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Fayette, Miss., Health Center Grant proposal and related correspondence |
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Holmes County, Miss. |
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Jackson Urban League |
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Lee County, Ark., Cooperative Clinic |
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Memphis, Tenn., Health Center |
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| Box 60 |
Mississippi Health Planning Board proposal |
North Bolivar County, Miss., Health Council |
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Rosedale, Miss. |
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Sanitarian Intern Program |
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Shirley, Aaron, Mississippi health organizations |
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Symonds, Miss., water campaign |
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Urban planning experiment, Reston, Va. |
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Series 2. Office files received from John Hatch, 1968-1990.
Arrangement: includes two sets of office files grouped and maintained as received from John Hatch.
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Subseries 2.1. Office files I, 1968-1990.
Arrangement: alphabetical.
Includes correspondence, financial materials, grant proposals, Delta Health Center board of directors meeting minutes, contracts, land and lease agreements, legal materials, memoranda, insurance papers, personnel records, receipts, printed matter, reports, and other items. Subject file topics include medical and dental services; the Supplemental Food Program; the Sanitarian Intern Program; William Waller's 1973 veto of federal funding to the Delta Health Center; oral contraception; travel; Medicare; Medicaid; the Women, Infants, and Children program; the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare; the Department of Health and Human Services; the Office of Economic Opportunity; the North Bolivar County Health and Civic Improvement Council, and other subjects. Frequent correspondents include Delta Health Center accountant Cornelius Beal, and executive or project directors Andrew James, Rogers B. Morris, Eric Taylor, Kermit Hunter, and Richard A. Polk; and Leon Cooper of the Office of Economic Opportunity. Files are grouped as recieved from John Hatch. Note that, for the most part, original file names have been maintained.
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Subseries 2.2. Office files II, 1968-1990.
Arrangement: alphabetical.
Includes grant materials; reports, correspondence, and other materials by John Hatch; subject files; studies; photographs; memoranda; issues of "The Voice," a Mound Bayou, Miss. newspaper; patient surveys of the impact of the Delta Health Center on families in its service area; and other items. Subjects and topics include nurses and midwifery; the role of health services in church congretations, including a grant proposal by the Shaw-Speaks Community Center of Wilmington, N.C. to conduct educational activities in health promotion and disease prevention within the Cape Fear Conference of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church; Mississippi Governor William Waller's 1972 veto of the Delta Community Health Center and Hospital's federal funding, including photographs of a protest against the veto in Jackson, Miss.; a lawsuit involving the North Bolivar County Development Corporation and the North Bolivar County Farm Cooperative, and other topics. Files are grouped as recieved from John Hatch. Note that, for the most part, original file names have been maintained.
| Box 115 |
Administrative Services Director's Report, Delta Health Center |
American Appraisal, 1972-1977Includes correspondence and the Clients' Service Bulletin. |
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Atlanta Southside Comprehensive Health Center |
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Board of directors, 1981 |
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Bolivar County Hospital East |
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Delta Health Center budget proposal, 1972-1973 |
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Delta Health Center detailed property listing, 31 August 1976 |
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| Box 116 |
Delta Health Center family impact surveys, 1980 |
Delta Health Center salary data, undated |
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Ernest & Ernest, Certified Public Accountants, 1972-1974 |
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Grant application, Delta Health Center, 1988-1989 |
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"Guide to Process Planning with Community People," by John Hatch |
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Hatch, John, 1992Includes reports to the Delta Health Center's board of directors, dental clinical activities reports, monthly provider productivity reports, a request for funding from the Bolivar County African-Americans AIDS Network, scattered correspondence and other items. |
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| Box 117 |
Health center and hospital charters and bylaws |
Health Maintenance Organization, 1972-1974 |
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Hill-Burton application, 1975-1976 |
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"MC" MiscellaneousIncludes correspondence, contracts, and other items, 1972-1975, relating to the Delta Health Center's hiring of the McTeer, Walls, and Bailey law firm. |
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Medical staff organization |
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Memoranda, 1971-1974 |
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Memoranda, 1971-1974Includes scattered memoranda, several of which involving Orange-Chatham Comprehensive Health Services. |
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Mississippi Valley State University |
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Mott Foundation proposal, 1986Proposal by the Shaw-Speaks Community Center of Wilmington, N.C., to train a cadre of volunteers to conduct educational activities in health promotion and disease prevention within the Cape Fear Conference of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. |
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Mound Bayou, 1968-1970, 1980Includes reports and other information on health care and sanitation in Mississippi and on the North Bolivar County Farm Cooperative and Cannery, a 1970 issue of the Delta Health Center Digest, a 1980 Mound Bayou telephone directory, and other items |
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| Box 118 |
Newspapers, 1969, 1971Includes scattered 1971 issues of "The Voice," a Mound Bayou, Miss. newspaper, and one 1969 issue of the "Arkansas Gazette." |
North Bolivar County Development Corporation, Inc., 1971-1988Includes the charter, a copy of a deed of trust, and several court summons pertaining to a lawsuit. |
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North Bolivar County Development Corporation v. David Dulaney |
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North Bolivar County Development Corporation and David Dulaney v. Louis Sanders |
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North Bolivar County Farm Cooperative meeting minutes, 1968 |
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North Bolivar County Farm Cooperative member meetings and forms, 1989-1990Includes meeting announcements, notes, and membership forms. |
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North Bolivar County Farm Cooperative: North Bolivar County Development Corp. lawsuitsIncludes material related to a lawsuits brought against farmers for unpaid rent by the North Bolivar County Development Corporation. |
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North Bolivar County Farm Cooperative v. North Bolivar County Development Corporation |
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| Box 119 |
Nurses and midwiferyIncludes information, correspondence, policies, standing orders, sponsorship applications, and other materials related to the nurse-midwifery service at the Delta Heath Center. |
Office of Economic Opportunity correspondence, 1972-1973 |
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Photographs: people and landscapes, 1970sThere are two identified photographs: one of Alfonso Cooper, and one of Kenny Harris. Other photographs are of unidentified people, mostly African Americans, and houses, farms, fields, and other scenes, probably in or around Mound Bayou, Mississippi. Also included are images of the Tufts University basketball team, and several images that appear to have been taken inside the Delta Health Center. |
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Photographs: scrapbookPhotographs are of unidentified people, mostly African Americans, and houses, farms, fields, and other scenes, possibly in or around Mound Bayou, Mississippi. Also included are images of the Tufts University basketball team, and a couple images of the Midnight Gin Company in Midnight, Miss. |
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Photographs: veto protest, July 1972Photographs are of a picket line in Jackson, Miss., showing protesters with signs, demonstrating against Mississippi Governor William Waller's veto of the Delta Community Health Center and Hospital's Office of Economic Opportunity funding. One picket sign, which reads "Health Centers should be operated by doctors, not Lee Sutton," refers to Mrs. Lee Spainhour Sutton, the head of the Mississippi Office of Economic Opportunity. Newspaper articles and other items related to the veto and the protest can be found in boxes 57 and 58 of this collection, in the "Publicity: Delta Health Center" files. |
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Printed materials, 1971-1989Topics include health care and community action. |
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ReportsTopics include the development of health and human services in church congregations, rural preventive health outreach, social action, community self-help, the role of the family health worker, and other topics. |
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Southern Regional Council correspondence, 1972, 1975 |
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Study of Delta Health Center and North Bolivar County Farm Cooperative, 1972 |
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Symond water system, 1969 |
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Series 3. Audio recordings, 1968-1992.
Arrangement: tapes are grouped as recieved by addition.
Audio recordings include speeches and discussions of various persons, 1970-1971 and undated, among them a recording of Stokeley Carmichael speaking at North Carolina Central University in March 1970. There are also recorded interviews with various persons connected with the Delta Health Center, including director Andrew James, and a recording of a speech by Martin Luther King Jr. given at the Delta Ministry's Mount Beulah Conference Center in Edwards, Miss., 16 February 1968.
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Subseries 3.1A. Interviews, 1992 (Addition of March 1995).
Acquisitions information: Accession 95041
Audiocassettes of interviews with persons connected with the Delta Health Center. Interviews were conducted in 1992 by John Hatch and Martha Mounett. Release forms for all interviews are on file. Interviews are usable, but there are no abstracts or transcripts available.
| Audiocassette C-4613/1 |
Anderson, JamesAudiocassette Previously listed as T-4613/1 |
| Audiocassette C-4613/2 |
Brown, JohnAudiocassette Previously listed as T-4613/2 |
| Audiocassette C-4613/3 |
Caldwell, Clara MaeAudiocassette Previously listed as T-4613/3 |
| Audiocassette C-4613/4 |
Calhoun, Bobbie HearonAudiocassette Previously listed as T-4613/4 |
| Audiocassette C-4613/5 |
Cartwright, Jack and Barbara BrooksAudiocassette Previously listed as T-4613/5 |
| Audiocassette C-4613/6 |
Crockett, William Jr.Audiocassette Previously listed as T-4613/6 |
| Audiocassette C-4613/7 |
Shirley, AaronAudiocassette Previously listed as T-4613/7 |
| Audiocassette C-4613/8 |
Hampton, MaryAudiocassette Previously listed as T-4613/8 |
| Audiocassette C-4613/9 |
Hemphill, Maude DAudiocassette Previously listed as T-4613/9 |
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Holmes, C. PrestonAudiocassette Previously listed as T-4613/10 |
| Audiocassette C-4613/11 |
Holmes, Oneida Del RioAudiocassette Previously listed as T-4613/11 |
| Audiocassette C-4613/12 |
Johnson, HermanAudiocassette Previously listed as T-4613/12 |
| Audiocassette C-4613/13 |
Lewis, Ollie BelleAudiocassette Previously listed as T-4613/13 |
| Audiocassette C-4613/14 |
Liddell, WesleyAudiocassette Previously listed as T-4613/14 |
| Audiocassette C-4613/15 |
Lucas, EarlAudiocassette Previously listed as T-4613/15 |
| Audiocassette C-4613/16 |
Scott, LizzieAudiocassette Previously listed as T-4613/16 |
| Audiocassette C-4613/17 |
Turner, Alla FairAudiocassette Previously listed as T-4613/17 |
| Audiocassette C-4613/18 |
Ward, H. Y.Audiocassette Previously listed as T-4613/18 |
| Audiocassette C-4613/19 |
Williams, IreneAudiocassette Previously listed as T-4613/19 |
| Audiocassette C-4613/20 |
Wilson, ViolaAudiocassette Previously listed as T-4613/20 |
| Audiocassette C-4613/21 |
Woodley, Shelton, Sr.Audiocassette Previously listed as T-4613/21 |
| Audiocassette C-4613/22 |
Young, LucindaAudiocassette Previously listed as T-4613/22 |
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Subseries 3.2A. Meeting at the Mount Beulah Conference Center, Edwards, Miss., including
Martin Luther King Jr., 1968 (Addition of January 1995).
Acquisitions information: Accession 95148
| Audiotape T-4613/1 |
Martin Luther King Jr. and others speaking at a meeting at the Delta Ministry's Mount Beulah Conference Center in Edwards, Miss., 16 February 19681/4" Open Reel Audio CD-R listening copy is available. Previously listed as T-4613/23. |
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Subseries 3.3A. Speeches and discussions, 1970-1971 and
undated (Addition of 1992).
Acquisitions information: Accession 95149
Open reel audio tapes containing speeches and discussions of various persons, many of whom were involved in the Delta Health Center, 1970-1971. There is also a recording of Stokeley Carmichael speaking at North Carolina Central University in March 1970. Tapes are marked as part of the "Rosh Collection, 1992."
| Audiotape T-4613/6 |
Campbell, Emory; Halpern, [Florence]; Layman, Linda; Taylor, JamesPreviously listed as T-4613/28. |
| Audiotape T-4613/3 |
Carmichael, Stokeley, speaking at North Carolina Central University, March 1970CD-R listening copy is available. Previously listed as T-4613/24. |
| Audiotape T-4613/4 |
Cohen, Roger, 1971; Howe, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore, 1971; Geiger, Jack, 1971Previously listed as T-4613/26. |
| Audiotape T-4613/2 |
"Conference on Better Health Care for Poor People in Mississippi", 31 July 1970Previously listed as T-4613/24. |
| Audiotape T-4613/5 |
Geiger, JackPreviously listed as T-4613/27. |
| Audiotape T-4613/7 |
Johnson, J. L.; Lucas, EarlPreviously listed as T-4613/29. |
| Audiotape T-4613/8 |
Smith, RobertPreviously listed as T-4613/30. |
| Audiotape T-4613/9 |
[unidentified sound recording]Previously listed as T-4613/31. |
| Audiotape T-4613/10 |
[unidentified sound recording]Previously listed as T-4613/32. |
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Series 4A. Delta Health Center Website, 2013-2014 (Addition of January 2014).
Acquisition Information: Accession 101980
Website includes organizational history and information about services, locations, and providers.
| Digital Folder DF-4613/1 |
Delta Health Center website, 2013-2014 |
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Audiotapes (T-4613/1-10)
Imagebox (IB-46133/1)
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