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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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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 #04613, Subseries: "1.2. Town of Mound Bayou, 1959-1980." Box 6 |
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Correspondence and related materials, 1971-1974 #04613, Subseries: "1.2. Town of Mound Bayou, 1959-1980." Box 6-7Correspondence 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, 1974-1975 #04613, Subseries: "1.2. Town of Mound Bayou, 1959-1980." Box 7Correspondence with and materials related to Johnson, vice-mayor and alderman of Mound Bayou, Miss. |
Master plan, 1967-1973 #04613, Subseries: "1.2. Town of Mound Bayou, 1959-1980." Box 7Includes 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, 1966-1969 #04613, Subseries: "1.2. Town of Mound Bayou, 1959-1980." Box 7-8Correspondence, 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, 1970-1972 #04613, Subseries: "1.2. Town of Mound Bayou, 1959-1980." Box 8Includes 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 #04613, Subseries: "1.2. Town of Mound Bayou, 1959-1980." Box 8 |
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Mound Bayou Community Hospital: other papers, 1966-1979 #04613, Subseries: "1.2. Town of Mound Bayou, 1959-1980." Box 8Includes 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 #04613, Subseries: "1.2. Town of Mound Bayou, 1959-1980." Box 8 |
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Meharry Medical College: publicity #04613, Subseries: "1.2. Town of Mound Bayou, 1959-1980." Box 8 |
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Mississippi data, 1959-1973 #04613, Subseries: "1.2. Town of Mound Bayou, 1959-1980." Box 9Includes 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 #04613, Subseries: "1.2. Town of Mound Bayou, 1959-1980." Box 9 |
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Mound Bayou: Community Health Program documents, 1965-1970 #04613, Subseries: "1.2. Town of Mound Bayou, 1959-1980." Box 9Includes 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 #04613, Subseries: "1.2. Town of Mound Bayou, 1959-1980." Box 9 |
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Mound Bayou Community Hospital: meeting minutes and related materials, 1967-1969 #04613, Subseries: "1.2. Town of Mound Bayou, 1959-1980." Box 10Includes 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 #04613, Subseries: "1.2. Town of Mound Bayou, 1959-1980." Box 10 |
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Mound Bayou Community Hospital: brochures #04613, Subseries: "1.2. Town of Mound Bayou, 1959-1980." Box 10 |
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Mound Bayou Community Hospital: Community Action Program statements, 1972 #04613, Subseries: "1.2. Town of Mound Bayou, 1959-1980." Box 10 |
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Mound Bayou Community Hospital: eligibility requirements and Utilization Committee #04613, Subseries: "1.2. Town of Mound Bayou, 1959-1980." Box 10Refers 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 #04613, Subseries: "1.2. Town of Mound Bayou, 1959-1980." Box 10 |
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North Bolivar County Civic and Health Improvement Council #04613, Subseries: "1.2. Town of Mound Bayou, 1959-1980." Box 11Includes 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 #04613, Subseries: "1.2. Town of Mound Bayou, 1959-1980." Box 11 |
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Office of Economic Opportunity documents, 1968-1969 #04613, Subseries: "1.2. Town of Mound Bayou, 1959-1980." Box 11Includes 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, 1976-1977 #04613, Subseries: "1.2. Town of Mound Bayou, 1959-1980." Box 11Chiefly 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 #04613, Subseries: "1.2. Town of Mound Bayou, 1959-1980." Box 12 |
State University of New York at Stony Brook: administration of grant, 1971-1972 #04613, Subseries: "1.2. Town of Mound Bayou, 1959-1980." Box 12 |
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State University of New York at Stony Brook: environmental issues, 1970-1971 #04613, Subseries: "1.2. Town of Mound Bayou, 1959-1980." Box 12 |
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State University of New York at Stony Brook: legal documents, 1968, 1971 #04613, Subseries: "1.2. Town of Mound Bayou, 1959-1980." Box 12Includes 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 #04613, Subseries: "1.2. Town of Mound Bayou, 1959-1980." Box 12 |
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State University of New York at Stony Brook: printed material, 1970s #04613, Subseries: "1.2. Town of Mound Bayou, 1959-1980." Box 12 |
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Town planning, 1966-1971 #04613, Subseries: "1.2. Town of Mound Bayou, 1959-1980." Box 12 |
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University of Wisconsin medical student reports, 1972 #04613, Subseries: "1.2. Town of Mound Bayou, 1959-1980." Box 12Reports 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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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.
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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.
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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.
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Articles and clippings, 1968-1971 #04613, Subseries: "1.8. Photographs and publicity materials, 1956-1973." Box 55 |
Clippings: health care, general #04613, Subseries: "1.8. Photographs and publicity materials, 1956-1973." Box 55 |
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Clippings: Mississippi publicity #04613, Subseries: "1.8. Photographs and publicity materials, 1956-1973." Box 55 |
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Clippings: other clippings and related material #04613, Subseries: "1.8. Photographs and publicity materials, 1956-1973." Box 55 |
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Negatives and slides: Delta Health Center construction progress #04613, Subseries: "1.8. Photographs and publicity materials, 1956-1973." IB-4613/1 |
Photographs and slides: Columbia Point #04613, Subseries: "1.8. Photographs and publicity materials, 1956-1973." IB-4613/1 |
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Photographs: Dan Bernstein, late 1960s #04613, Subseries: "1.8. Photographs and publicity materials, 1956-1973." IB-4613/1Includes 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 College #04613, Subseries: "1.8. Photographs and publicity materials, 1956-1973." IB-4613/1Includes 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 photographs #04613, Subseries: "1.8. Photographs and publicity materials, 1956-1973." IB-4613/1Includes 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 #04613, Subseries: "1.8. Photographs and publicity materials, 1956-1973." IB-4613/1 |
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Publicity: Columbia Point Health Center #04613, Subseries: "1.8. Photographs and publicity materials, 1956-1973." Box 57Includes 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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Publicity: Delta Health Center #04613, Subseries: "1.8. Photographs and publicity materials, 1956-1973." Box 57-58Includes 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" |
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Publicity: Tufts-New England Medical Center #04613, Subseries: "1.8. Photographs and publicity materials, 1956-1973." Box 58 |
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Printed materials: 1966-1972 #04613, Subseries: "1.8. Photographs and publicity materials, 1956-1973." Box 58-59Includes 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.
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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.
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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.
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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 1968 #04613, Subseries: "3.2A. Meeting at the Mount Beulah Conference Center, Edwards, Miss., including Martin Luther King Jr., 1968 (Addition of January 1995)." T-4613/11/4" 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."
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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 #04613, Series: "4A. Delta Health Center Website, 2013-2014 (Addition of January 2014)." DF-4613/1 |
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Items Separated
Audiocassettes (C-4613/1-22)
Audiotapes (T-4613/1-10)
Imagebox (IB-46133/1)
Digital folder (DF-4613/1)
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Encoded by: Rachel Canada, April 2004
Updated by: Dawne Howard Lucas, February 2021; Nancy Kaiser, March 2021
Revisions: collection reprocessed and finding aid updated in February 2009 by Jessica Sedgwick
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