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Size | 6.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 2460 items) |
Abstract | The Jack Geiger Collection is an assemblage of documents and audio recordings that were used in the research for and writing of Thomas J. Ward, Jr.'s Out in the Rural: A Mississippi Health Center and Its War on Poverty (Oxford University Press, 2016). The collection chronicles the administrative history of the Delta Health Center in the historically black township of Mound Bayou, Miss., its initiatives especially the North Bolivar County Farm Cooperative and improved sanitation, and conflicts with Mississippi's medical community and white political power structure. Collection materials offer insight on the community health center movement, community organizing, community health councils, public and environmental health, and the impact of systemic racism on public health. Other topics include malnutrition, food insecurity, infant mortality, elder care, sharecropping, Mississippi's plantation-based agriculture, housing in rural Mississippi, recruitment and retention of medical staff for the rural community health center, mental health, segregated healthcare, civil rights, leadership in the African American community, and African American fraternal orders. Also included are documents and audio recordings pertaining to a second community health center, now named the Geiger-Gibson Community Health Center, that was founded in the same time period and located in the predominantly low income neighborhood of Columbia Point in Boston, Mass. The Addition of April 2018 contains a short documentary film on the Delta Health Center made by student filmmaker, Judy Schader Rogers, in the fall of 1969 and winter of 1970. |
Creator | Geiger, Jack, 1925- |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: Laura Hart, November 2016 and May 2017; Anne Wells, July 2018
Encoded by: Laura Hart, November 2016
Updated by: Anne Wells, July 2018; Nancy Kaiser, January 2021
Other processing information: Thirty-two audio recordings in this collection were originally made on open reel tapes, which were digitized in 2007 before the collection was donated to the Library. The Library does not hold the original open reel tapes, but the digitized recordings are available for use. Each recording has a tape log compiled by the donor that identifies the speakers and describes the contents and topics addressed. The tape log is transcribed below the listing of a recording.
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Clicking on a subject heading below will take you into the University Library's online catalog.
The Delta Health Center opened in the rural, African American township of Mound Bayou in Bolivar County, Miss., in 1966. At the time of its founding, it was named the Tufts-Delta Health Center, and it was later known as the Delta Community Health Center, the Mound Bayou Community Hospital and Delta Health Center, Delta Community Hospital and Health Center, Inc., and finally the Delta Health Center, Inc. The Delta Health Center was federally funded first through Tufts University and later through the State University of New York at Stony Brook and 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. One of the first community health centers in the United States, it serves Bolivar, Coahoma, Sunflower, and Washington counties, where poverty is widespread. The comprehensive community or neighborhood health center model sought to augment traditional clinical health services by addressing the underlying causes of illness, including economic, environmental, and social factors and living conditions.
Funding for the center was initially secured in 1965 from the Office of Economic Opportunity by two Tufts University physicians, Jack Geiger and Count D. 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 American 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 exposed to the extreme poverty and ill health that plagued local residents of the rural South. As a medical student in the late 1950s, Geiger had studied social medicine with Sidney Kark and Emily Kark in the community health centers of rural Natal, South Africa. Geiger wanted to bring that community health model to the United States in order to serve impoverished communities, like those in Mississippi and elsewhere. Working with Tufts University, Geiger approached Sandy Kravitz and Sargent Shriver of the newly formed Office of Economic Opportunity with his proposal to start 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 predominantly low income Columbia Point neighborhood in Boston, Mass. (now the Geiger-Gibson Community Health Center).
The two centers at Columbia Point and Mound Bayou 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 served as the project director, and John W. Hatch, also of Tufts University, 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 standard clinical health services, the Delta Health Center provided 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 center established the North Bolivar County Farm Cooperative, headed by John W. Hatch and social worker L. C. Dorsey, in order to provide food security and economic assistance 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 African Americans who had migrated to northern cities. The Afro-American Bookstore started under the cooperative. The center supported transportation, nutrition, and supplemental food programs. Educational activities at the Delta Health Center included training local residents as community health assistants, conducting analytic research, hosting summer internship programs for visiting medical students, and hosting the Systematic Training and Redevelopment (STAR) Program.
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 in the center and engaged in efforts to raise health standards and improve employment rates, housing conditions, and economic security. In 1971 the Office of Economic Opportunity demanded the merger of the Delta Health Center and the Mound Bayou Community Hospital. The Mound Bayou Community Hospital had been formed in the late 1960s from the failing Taborian and Sara Brown Memorial Hospitals run by African American fraternal orders. 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, and this board replaced the North Bolivar County Health and Civic Improvement Council as the governing body.
This note was adapted from the historical note written for the Delta Health Center Records (04613)
Back to TopThe collection of Jack Geiger, physician and an early leader in the community health center movement, is an assemblage of documents and audio recordings that were used in the research for and writing of Thomas J. Ward, Jr.'s Out in the Rural: A Mississippi Health Center and Its War on Poverty (Oxford University Press, 2016). Ward's historical monograph tells the story of the Tufts-Delta Health Center, later the Delta Health Center, founded in the historically black township of Mound Bayou, Miss., in the middle of the Mississippi Delta. The Health Center opened in 1966 under the auspices of Tufts University and the leadership of Jack Geiger and Count D. Gibson. Initially funded by the newly established Office of Economic Opportunity under Sargent Shriver, the Health Center sought to serve the impoverished African American community of rural Bolivar County, Miss., by providing comprehensive medical care and addressing the social and environmental conditions that affect the region's public health.
Collection materials include correspondence, memoranda, newspaper clippings, reports, articles, scholarly papers, printed items, audio recordings of interviews with Health Center staff and Mound Bayou residents, meeting minutes and recorded proceedings, and typescript narratives by and biographical information about three of the Delta Health Center's instrumental figures, L.C. Dorsey, Jack Geiger, and John W. Hatch.
The collection chronicles the Health Center's administrative history, reveals the Health Center's conflicts with Mississippi's white political power structure and the local medical community, and documents Health Center's initiatives, particularly the North Bolivar County Farm Cooperative, job training for medical support staff and sanitarians, and extensive sanitation work led by its environmental health director Andrew James.
Collection materials offer insight on community organizing, community participation and representation in health councils, and the impact of systemic racism on public health. Other topics addressed in the collection materials are malnutrition, food insecurity, infant mortality, elder care, sharecropping, housing in rural Mississippi, recruitment and retention of medical staff for a community health center, mental health in the shadow of poverty and racism, segregated healthcare, civil rights, leadership in the African American community, and African American fraternal orders.
Also included are documents and audio recordings pertaining to a second community health center, now named the Geiger-Gibson Community Health Center, that was founded in the same time period and located in the predominantly low income neighborhood of Columbia Point in Boston, Mass.
The Addition of March 2017 contains materials similar to those found in the original deposit.
The Addition of April 2018 contains a short documentary film on the Delta Health Center made by student filmmaker, Judy Schader Rogers, in the fall of 1969 and winter of 1970. Titled, Out in the Rural: A Health Center in Mississippi, the film documents the broad vision of a community health center involved in far more than traditional medical diagnosis and treatment, as well as the faces, crops, and living conditions of the poor, African American, and rural community who lived in Mound Bayou, Miss. at the time. The collection contains a 16mm moving image print of the film, as well as a digitized access copy made from the film print.
Arrangement of Collection
Series 1. Delta Health Center and Columbia Point, 1963-2009 and undated
Series 2. Mound Bayou, Miss., Hospitals and Healthcare, 1966-1993
Series 3. Towns and Counties in the Delta and the State of Mississippi, 1946-2005 and undated
Series 4. Research, Scholarship, and Writings, 1941-2014 and undated
Series 5. L.C. Dorsey, Jack Geiger, and John W. Hatch, 1963-2013 and undated
Series 6. Interviews and Conversations, 1966-2002 and undated
Series 7. Correspondence, Printed Materials, and Other Papers, 1947-2016 and undated (Addition of March 2017)
Series 8. Out in the Rural: Documentary Film on Delta Health Center, 1970 (Addition of April 2018)
Processing Note
The original files established by the donor Jack Geiger were retained though they have been rehoused in archival folders. In some cases, the donor's file labels or folder titles (e.g., "Struggle with Mound Bayou Mafia") were retained. Where retained, the donor's original file and folder titles are indicated by quotation marks. Many files are accompanied by explanatory notes written by Jack Geiger. Although most of the material is original, some items are copies of documents contained in the Delta Health Center Records (04613). These copies are frequently annotated with notes, explanations, and highlighting, most of which were likely made by Geiger.
Back to TopCorrespondence, meeting minutes, agendas, transcribed proceedings, audio recordings, newspaper clippings, reports and congressional testimony, court papers, and personnel files comprise the series. Materials pertain to the community health centers in the historically black township of Mound Bayou, Miss., and the Columbia Point neighborhood in Boston, Mass. The two health centers were established under the auspices of Tufts University in the mid 1960s under the leadership of physicians and social justice activists Jack Geiger and Count D. Gibson, and they were initially funded by the newly created Office of Economic Opportunity headed by Sargent Shriver. Documents reflect the social, political, and economic climate of the Mississippi Delta in the 1960s and 1970s and the enduring impact of systemic racism on public health and social welfare particularly for the African American population in the region.
Materials are letters, memoranda, and items enclosed with or attached to the correspondence that pertain chiefly to the Health Center's operations, its relationship to the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO), the community of Mound Bayou, Miss., and the staff at the Health Center. Other topics include municipal services and sanitation projects in Bolivar and surrounding counties and other townships, the local government, and the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority's charitable service work in the Mississippi Delta. Correspondence also offers a glimpse at the complex racial and class hierarchies in Mound Bayou, Miss., and the surrounding area chiefly from the perspective of Jack Geiger.
Folder 1 |
Correspondence, 1966-1969Includes explanatory notes written by Jack Geiger and an annotated copy of an article titled "Healthcare in the Mississippi Delta." |
Folder 2 |
Correspondence, 1968-1969Letters pertain chiefly to publicity for the Tufts-Delta Health Center. |
Folder 3 |
"Office of Economic Opportunity," 1968-1970Chiefly correspondence and minutes of a 1968 Health Center physicians meeting. Includes explanatory notes written by Jack Geiger. |
Folder 4 |
"Community," 1968-1977Correspondence pertaining to the Health Council, community development, municipal services in Mound Bayou, Miss., and the local population. Of interest is a 6 March 1969 letter from Jack Geiger to civil rights and social justice activist Howard W. Hallman with the Civic Action Institute. Geiger writes, "The Blacks on the staff and advisory committees of the Bolivar County CAP are carefully selected toms and I am skeptical that there is any meaningful representation whatsoever of the impoverished Black community...the existing Black middle-class conservative power structure tends to be put to use by the dominant white power structure for purposes such as this. Thereby serving the needs of both: The whites to maintain control, and the middle-class Blacks to maintain their relative status, power, control of the action and possible exploitation of others (the rural poor) within the Black community." |
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Correspondence, 1969Letters pertain to the local government structure of Mound Bayou, Miss., municipal codes, and local business and development opportunities. |
Folder 6 |
Memorandum from John W. Hatch to Andrew James, 30 January 1970Document pertains to the training and education needs of Tufts-Delta Health Center staff |
Folder 7 |
Memorandum from Jack Geiger to "The Files," 17 November 1971"Summary of a Telephone Conversation with Judy Ludinsky of the University of Wisconsin." |
Folder 8 |
Letter from Jack Geiger to Christian M. Hansen, 18 November 1971Includes an explanatory note written by Jack Geiger. |
Folder 9 |
Correspondence, February-November 1971Annotated copies of letters in the Delta Health Center Records held at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
Folder 10 |
Correspondence, December 1971-1972Annotated copies of letters in the Delta Health Center Records held at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
Folder 11 |
Memorandum from Jack Geiger to Tufts-Delta Health Center staff, 8 February 1972Includes an explanatory note written by Jack Geiger. |
Folder 12 |
Unsigned letter to Jack Geiger, 29 December 1975"We as citizens of Mound Bayou + some of us as patients of the Health Center have launched two seemingly ineffective petitions in protest of the termination of Dr. Gough…one of the few people of administrative position at the Health Center who not only had the medical interest of us people + our children at heart, but was also interested in our day-to-day well-being." |
Folder 13 |
Correspondence, 1980-1981Letters pertain to Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority's support for sanitation projects in Rosedale, Miss., and Gunnison, Miss. Includes explanatory note written by Jack Geiger. |
Materials are minutes, agendas, and transcribed proceedings for meetings of various Health Center and civic committees. Topics addressed include budgets, Health Center staff recruitment and retention, Mound Bayou Community Hospital and the merger with the Health Center, environmental health concerns particularly water and sanitation, and supplemental food programs and the North Bolivar County Farm Cooperative.
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Planning meetings for Tufts-Delta Health Center, 1967Minutes of meetings discussing aides and other Tufts-Delta Health Center employees including sanitation aides and licensed practical nurses (LPN). |
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Tufts-Delta Health Center executive committee, 1967-1969Incomplete set of minutes. Discussion topics recorded in the minutes include a prefabricated facility for the Center, application for HUD's Model City program, possibility of a factory opening in Mound Bayou, budget, staff recruitment, and childcare for the Center's staff. |
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"Cooperation and Coordination Meeting," October 1968Minutes and transcription of proceedings from the two-day, joint meeting of Mound Bayou Community Hospital and Tufts-Delta Health Center. Discussion topics recorded in the transcription include medical records, medical and eligibility standards, x-rays, staff privileges and rotations, emergency and operating services, and hospital facilities. |
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Temporary Health Planning Council, 1968Agenda and minutes. Topics on the agenda include funding for building and fixing houses, county water, sewer service, and transportation. |
Folder 18 |
North Bolivar County Health and Civic Improvement Council, Inc., 1970Contains minutes. |
Folder 19 |
Tufts-Delta Health Center executive committee, 1970Discussion topics recorded in the minutes pertain to the Mound Bayou community and to the health center's medical services, funding, budgets, staff, and auxiliary programs including sanitation, training and education, supplemental food, the farm cooperative, elder care, and daycare for children. Of interest in the 26 February 1970 minutes is a short section titled "Therapeutic Abortion." A physician reported: "The decision of the medical staff was that the doctor would tell a patient where to go for help in cases, the procedures that had to be followed, but that members of our staff would not be involved beyond this giving of information." |
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Tufts-Delta Health Center board of directors, 1970Minutes pertain to the bank chosen for the Center's funds. |
Folder 21 |
Staff meeting, 29 September 1971Annotated copy of minutes in the Delta Health Center Records held at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
Folder 22 |
Delta Health Center board of directors, 1992Includes agendas and minutes. |
Audio recordings of meetings and presentations pertain to the Health Center, the Office of Economic Opportunity and the Community Action Program (CAP), the Mound Bayou, Miss., community, the local government and power structure, the local medical community including the African American fraternal orders' Taborian and Sarah Brown hospitals, the North Bolivar County Farm Cooperative, and the community health center in the Columbia Point neighborhood of Boston, Mass. Speakers include Jack Geiger, John W. Hatch, Joanne Bluestone, Count D. Gibson, and L.C. Dorsey.
Topics include poverty in Mound Bayou, Miss., the "feudalistic society" in Mississippi Delta, race and class in Mound Bayou, community participation and representation in community health centers, Meharry Medical College, medical education, segregation in medical facilities, role of black hospitals in offering dignity to African Americans seeking healthcare, incompetent and unethical local physicians, the political necessity of disassociating the Health Center from the Civil Rights Movement, local and state politics and political office holders, economic impact of the Health Center, home remedies, infant mortality, malnutrition, abortion, mental health, and health insurance.
Digital Folder DF-05699/4 |
"Geiger, Goss, Gaddison," undatedAudio recording. Processing information: Original open reel tape number: 5-04 (Please note the Library does not hold the original open reel tape.) Tape Log (adapted from the donor's description):
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Digital Folder DF-05699/12 |
"Bluestone, OEO presentation," undatedAudio recording. Processing information: Original open reel tape number: 7-02 (Please note the Library does not hold the original open reel tape.) Tape Log (adapted from the donor's description):
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Digital Folder DF-05699/14 |
"Geiger and Gibson speak to staff," undatedAudio recording. Processing information: Original open reel tape number: 7-04 (Please note the Library does not hold the original open reel tape.) Tape Log (adapted from the donor's description):
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Digital Folder DF-05699/15 |
"John Hatch's 10-day trip to Mississippi," undatedAudio recording. Processing information: Original open reel tape number: 7-05 (Please note the Library does not hold the original open reel tape.) Tape Log (adapted from the donor's description):
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Digital Folder DF-05699/16 |
"John Hatch's Washington Report," undatedAudio recording. Processing information: Original open reel tape number: 7-06 (Please note the Library does not hold the original open reel tape.) Tape Log (adapted from the donor's description):
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Digital Folder DF-05699/17 |
"John Hatch's Southern Report," 1 April 1966Audio recording. Processing information: Original open reel tape number: 7-07 (Please note the Library does not hold the original open reel tape.) Tape Log (adapted from the donor's description):
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Digital Folder DF-05699/18 |
"Unknown speaker," 12 January 1967Audio recording. Processing information: Original open reel tape number: 7-08 (Please note the Library does not hold the original open reel tape.) Tape Log (adapted from the donor's description):
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Digital Folder DF-05699/19 |
"Unknown speaker," 12 January 1967Audio recording. Processing information: Original open reel tape number: 7-09 (Please note the Library does not hold the original open reel tape.) Tape Log (adapted from the donor's description):
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Digital Folder DF-05699/20 |
"Columbia Point Open House Ribbon Cutting Speeches," undatedAudio recording. Processing information: Original open reel tape number: 7-10 (Please note the Library does not hold the original open reel tape.) Tape Log (adapted from the donor's description):
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Digital Folder DF-05699/21 |
"Columbia Point Open House Ribbon Cutting Speeches," undatedAudio recording. Processing information: Original open reel tape number: 7-11. Duplicate of DF-05699/20. (Please note the Library does not hold the original open reel tape.)
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Digital Folder DF-05699/22 |
"Columbia Point Staff Meeting," 13 December 1965Audio recording. Processing information: Original open reel tape number: 7-12 (Please note the Library does not hold the original open reel tape.) Tape Log (adapted from the donor's description):
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Digital Folder DF-05699/23 |
"Columbia Point Staff Meeting," 10 January 1966Audio recording. Processing information: Original open reel tape number: 7-13 (Please note the Library does not hold the original open reel tape.) Tape Log (adapted from the donor's description):
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Digital Folder DF-05699/24 |
"Organization of Columbia Point Discussion," 1966Audio recording. Processing information: Original open reel tape number: 7-14 (Please note the Library does not hold the original open reel tape.) Tape Log (adapted from the donor's description):
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Digital Folder DF-05699/25 |
"Planning Committee Meeting," 9 and 10 May" 1967Audio recording. Processing information: Original open reel tape number: 7-15 (Please note the Library does not hold the original open reel tape.) Tape Log (adapted from the donor's description):
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Digital Folder DF-05699/26 |
"Program Committee Meeting," November 1966Audio recording. Processing information: Original open reel tape number: 7-16 (Please note the Library does not hold the original open reel tape.) Tape Log (adapted from the donor's description):
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Digital Folder DF-5966/27 |
"Columbia Point Health Care," 18 October 1966Audio recording. Processing information: Original open reel tape number: 7-17 (Please note the Library does not hold the original open reel tape.) Tape Log (adapted from the donor's description):
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Digital Folder DF-05699/11 |
"American Association for the Advancement of Science addresses, Margaret Mead [and] L.C. Dorsey," undatedAudio recording. Processing information: Original open reel tape number: 7-01 (Please note the Library does not hold the original open reel tape.) Tape Log (adapted from the donor's description):
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Digital Folder DF-05699/28 |
"Co-op and Health Center Development," undatedAudio recording. Processing information: Original open reel tape number: 7-18 (Please note the Library does not hold the original open reel tape.) Tape Log (adapted from the donor's description):
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Digital Folder DF-05699/29 |
"John Hatch, L.C. Dorsey, and Jack Geiger," 1974Audio recording. Processing information: Original open reel tape number: 7-19 (Please note the Library does not hold the original open reel tape.) Tape Log (adapted from the donor's description):
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Digital Folder DF-05699/30 |
"Columbia Point," 1966-1967Audio recording. Processing information: Original open reel tape number: 7-20 (Please note the Library does not hold the original open reel tape.)
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Digital Folder DF-05699/31 |
"Meetings," 1968Audio recording. Processing information: Original open reel tape number: 7-21 (Please note the Library does not hold the original open reel tape.)
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Digital Folder DF-05699/32 |
"Unknown speaker," undatedAudio recording. Processing information: Original open reel tape number: 7-23 (Please note the Library does not hold the original open reel tape.) Tape Log (adapted from the donor's description):
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Audiocassette C-05699/8 |
Group of employees and L.C. Dorsey, undatedAudiocassette Tape Log (adapted from the donor's description):
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Audiocassette C-05699/9 |
Hunger, Food and Malnutrition, December 1969Audiocassette Tape Log (adapted from the donor's description):
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Audiocassette C-05699/10 |
Rashi Fein, undatedAudiocassette Tape Log (adapted from the donor's description):
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Audiocassette C-05699/11 |
Rashi Fein, undatedAudiocassette Tape Log (adapted from the donor's description):
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Audiocassette C-05699/16 |
Lincoln Pediatric Collective, undatedAudiocassette Tape Log (adapted from the donor's description):
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Audiocassette C-05699/17 |
Hunger, Food and Malnutrition, December 1969Audiocassette Tape Log (adapted from the donor's description):
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Audiocassette C-05699/22 |
Staff meeting, 13 February 1969Audiocassette Poor sound quality. |
Audiocassette C-05699/42 |
John W. Hatch, 1992Audiocassette Tape Log (adapted from the donor's description):
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Material is chiefly correspondence pertaining to environmental health services and Andrew James the director of those services at the Health Center. Also included is an audio recording with James. Topics addressed include training for sanitarians and nurse midwives, municipal sewage and water services, drinking water crisis and public health emergency in Mound Bayou, Miss., the public health dangers of pests such as rats and mosquitoes, housing and living conditions, and the tactic of identifying problems and solutions as public health issues rather than civil rights concerns when communicating with white plantation owners.
Folder 23 |
Sanitarian Intern Program, 1969Proposal written by Andrew James. |
Folder 24 |
"Water Crisis," 1969In a 11 July 1969 letter to Mayor Earl Lucas, Jack Geiger writes of the "public health emergency" in Mound Bayou, Miss. "At these levels, proper chlorination of the water is not possible; yet without such treatment, we know from direct past experience there will be serious contamination as measured by the growth of E. Coli and other organisms." |
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Andrew James, Director of Environmental Health, 1969-1970Includes correspondence, James's curriculum vitae, and an offprint of an article by James, "Tufts-Delta Administers Environmental Treatment." |
Folder 26 |
Andrew James, Director of Environmental Health, 1969-1971Chiefly correspondence pertaining to James's position as director of Environmental Health at the Tufts-Delta Health Center. Topics addressed in the letters include the Rosedale Hospital in Rosedale, Miss., training programs for sanitation officers and nurse midwives, hurricane relief efforts on Mississippi's Gulf coast, inspection of a public swimming pool, a definition of "decent conditions" requested by the Boston Legal Assistance Project in Boston, Mass., a municipal health department in Mound Bayou, Miss., low income housing in Clarksdale, Miss., and the Beaufort-Jasper Comprehensive Health Center in Beaufort, S.C. |
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Andrew James, Director of Environmental Health, 1969-1971
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Folder 28 |
"Sewage Lagoon," 1970Chiefly correspondence pertaining to the proposed location of a sewage lagoon near the Tufts-Delta Health Center. |
Digital Folder DF-05699/5 |
"Andy James," undatedAudio recording. Processing information: Original open reel tape number: 5-05 (Please note the Library does not hold the original open reel tape.) Tape Log (adapted from the donor's description):
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Materials are correspondence, brochures, notes, and parts of grant applications pertaining to the Health Center's supplemental food program and the Farm Cooperative. Topics addressed include, funding for the cooperative and food programs, malnutrition and malnourishment, food insecurity, food stamps, nutritional programs, impact on community of the black-run cooperative, a persistent sharecropping mentality, job opportunities, prospects for a cannery, and home remedies.
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North Bolivar Farm Cooperative, 1968-1971Chiefly correspondence. Topics of letters include funding for the co-op, food stamps, and hopes of food processing plants moving into the Mississippi Delta. |
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Supplemental Food Program for Bolivar County, 1969-1971"Almost half of the working people in the entire county make, on the average, less than $500.00 a year. The overwhelming majority of these people come from the Black Community...facts and figures indicate persons in Bolivar County are suffering as the results of malnutrition and hunger. For these reasons, OEO emergency food and medical services is asked for a grant to carry on a food distribution and nutrition program in Bolivar County." |
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"Farm Co-op," 1972Portions of a 1972 grant application, "North Bolivar County Farm Cooperative Self-help Nutritional Program," to fund the farm cooperative. |
Folder 37 |
"Co-op Notes," undatedTypescript notes about the North Bolivar Farm Cooperative and L.C. Dorsey. |
Folder 38 |
North Bolivar Farm Co-op,Informational brochure. "In North Bolivar County black people have many problems. Many of us don't have jobs, because machines have taken our places on the plantation. Without a decent job, we have little money to provide for our families. The houses we live in are falling apart. Many of us don't have water or indoor plumbing. The plantation system has kept us poor and powerless. This is why we decided to organize a co-op. The Co-op would give us a chance to break the hold that the plantation has had over us." In a 10 April 1969 letter to Selma Wolff and Harold A. Wolff of New York, Jack Geiger writes, "if you want to do something about health in an area like this you have to do every piece of it at once so we are becoming a well-digging, privy-building, house-rehabilitating, rural housing developing, water-system constructing, public transport-developing, farm co-op organizing, community center-building, job-training health center." |
Folder 39 |
"Measure for Measure," undatedA description of a non-profit, civil rights organization based in Wisconsin and a newspaper clipping about the organization's contributions to the North Bolivar Farm Cooperative, including canning supplies. |
Digital Folder DF-05699/1 |
"L.C. Dorsey," undatedAudio recording. Processing information: Original open reel tape number: 5-01 (Please note the Library does not hold the original open reel tape.) Tape Log (adapted from the donor's description):
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Topics addressed include infant care, elder care, hunger, food insecurity, and supplemental food programs, the use of home remedies, mental health particularly as it relates to external social factors and racism, environmental conditions and sanitation, economic conditions, and housing.
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Medical Care and the Mississippi Negro, 1963Report made to the United States Public Health Service. Includes data on medical services and the population broken down by race. |
Folder 41 |
Infant Feeding in Rural Mississippi, 1968"A questionnaire was devised with which we sought to determine the feeding patterns in this community. In addition, we sought information about demographic, social economic and educational characteristics of this community," |
Folder 42 |
It Can Be Done: The Tufts-Delta Health Center After One Year, 1968Report includes census and survey data and addresses medical care, social service, community action, farm cooperative, nutrition, sanitation, housing, and family planning. "The evidence is strong the poor get sicker, and the sick get poorer." |
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Tufts-Delta Health Center: Meeting the Challenge of Community Health, 1969Report by David E. Weeks. "Our education goals are to provide training and education opportunities to our staff and others from the target area, and thus provide a source of manpower for the health center and provide upward mobility for persons within the community." |
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Community Medicine Seminar, 1969"Whatever the decisions, when a community determines a course of action, we are committed to give them what they want. The problem that health professionals face is to educate the people to what they should need so they can need what they want." |
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The Community Part in Health Center Program, 1969By Mrs. Pearlia B. Robinson, Community Development Worker, Tufts-Delta Health Center. "Many people were seeing the doctor when they needed to. This was the first time poor black people had ever had this right. Until a few years ago most of us lived on the plantation as tenants or sharecroppers. When the bossman needed us, he would stand for the doctor's bill, but it was always necessary to go to the big house to get a note from the boss or his agent. If they didn't think you were sick you couldn't see the doctor." |
Folder 46 |
A Psychologist's Function in a Medical Program in Rural Mississippi, 1969Report by Florence Halpern. "As the psychologist becomes cognizant of the black man's problems it is apparent that these 'problems' are not those of the patient who comes for personal help because of inner conflicts. Rather his problems arise largely as a result of external conditions, and his needs are caused by an environment that others have structured for him." |
Folder 47 |
Social Problems of the Aging Population in Northern Bolivar County, circa 1969Report by John W. Hatch. Problems elderly African Americans experienced included difficulty in shopping, difficulty in home maintenance, absence of a water supply, inadequate toilets, nutritional problems, difficulty preparing meals, and loneliness. |
Folder 48 |
The Impact of Environmental Health at Delta Health Center, 1970Report by Andrew James. "Many of the health problems in the community are related to the water supply, sewage system, and waste disposal." |
Folder 49 |
Report of the Hot Lunch Program, 1970"This program is very much needed in these communities because there are so many aged people living alone, no one to talk to, no one to prepare them a decent meal. They feel neglected and they are. " |
Folder 50 |
T.D.H.C. Annual Report to OEO, 1970
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Folder 51 |
Community Development in a Rural Comprehensive Community Health Program, 1970By John W. Hatch. "We soon found out that the number one priority was not health as traditionally viewed. Food, that is the lack of it, was the most pressing problem in the fall and winter of 1967." |
Folder 52 |
Testimony of Rogers B. Morris, 1970For presentation at the hearings of the Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs, United States Senate. "In many homes, it rains, sleets or snows into that bedroom …In some instances, we have found families forced to cannibalize their own homes, tearing boards from the walls to burn in a old stove for heat to get through the worst of the winter months." |
Folder 53 |
Statement of Aaron Henry, President, Mississippi NAACP, 1970For presentation at the hearings of the Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs, United States Senate, 5 October 1970. "This Committee heard a few weeks ago about the housing conditions in North Bolivar County, Mississippi, where less than one house in three has piped water and the rest have outhouses or nothing at all. The people in those houses have lived their [sic] all their lives and in most cases, their parents lived that way before them. That's not a crisis, that's a scandal." |
Folder 54 |
Final report of the project director H. Jack Geiger, 1971"To the Board of Director, North Bolivar County Health and Civic Improvement Council on the Present Status and Future Prospects of the Delta Health Center." "There will be a continuing need for recruitment of professionals (particularly doctors) from outside; also social workers, accountants, nurses, pharmacists, etc. This will take continuing, unceasing effort , with close coordination between the Delta, the program component, other universities both Black and white, the new Domestic Health Corps, etc." |
Folder 55-56
Folder 55Folder 56 |
A Health Center for Social Change: People and Poverty in Rural Mississippi, circa 1971Lightly annotated copies of the report by Jack Geiger. "There was no recent American history of attempts, either conceptually or in practice, to see and use community health services for the poor not merely as an assault on the specific health problems and health care needs of the poverty population, but also as a basis for community organization and development, and through community organization for the implementation of social change in all of the related areas that overwhelmingly determine the ill health and the damaged quality of life in poverty: food, housing, clothing, water and sanitation, jobs and economic opportunity, mobility and transportation services, isolation from the sources of technical assistance, the early and overwhelming deprivation of children and individual, family and community fragmentation." |
Folder 57 |
A Report on Health Maintenance, 1971By Cynthia Amis, James Adams, and Leonard Inge. |
Folder 58 |
Community or Consumer Health Action, An Integral Part of the Comprehensive Health Center, 1971Report by Theodore Parrish. |
Folder 59 |
American Public Health Association Report, 1973Lightly annotated copy of a document held at Mississippi State University. "A starved local economy, infused with new funds, becomes destructively competitive for new advantage and new jobs, and local public agencies, with long traditions of dereliction in providing essential services, become hostile as they are by-passed by ad hoc mechanisms that accentuate the inequities of tradition." |
Folder 60 |
Dirt Dauber Nests, Socks Nailed Over Doorways, Salts, Prayer and OTCs: Space Age Medicine in the Poor Community, circa 1990Paper by L.C. Dorsey. "The use of home remedies is still part of the health care practices of many families in the entire state; often to compensate for the lack of money or insurance for health care by doctors and other health care professionals." |
Folder 61 |
Reports, 1992Includes "In-House Statement on the Seminar on Health and Development" and reports from Dental Services, Community Home Health Agency, the clinical director, administrative services director, and executive director. |
Folder 62 |
Delta Health Center newsletter, August 1992
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Folder 63 |
Clinical Services Division Board Report, 2009
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Folder 64 |
An Educational Approach to Housing, undatedReport by Andrew James. "We must see the need for environmental sociologists and clinical psychologists, and physicians are beginning to attribute some worth to our profession, exclusive of rat investigator and john inspectors. We must have a hand in planning in order to build out future ghettos and deny existence to social and economic structures that allow them to evolve." |
Materials pertain to two court cases in which the Delta Health Center was a litigant in the 1990s.
Folder 65-66 |
Court documents, 1990-1994Delta Health Center, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board. Also includes correspondene and a "Notice to Employees posted pursuant to an order of the United States Court of Appeals holding the undersigned in contempt." |
Folder 67 |
"Delta Fight," 1992Court documents including a successful motion for dismissal of Ivey Odom, et al. v. Delta Health Center, Inc. et al. |
Materials are job descriptions and applications, correspondence with job applicants, newspaper clippings, notes, budget and staffing justifications, and files on a labor dispute. In addition to specific jobs and applicants, topics addressed include recruitment and retention particularly of physicians, staff housing, and the living conditions of staff and their families most of whom had moved to Mississippi to work at the Health Center.
Folder 68 |
Personnel, 1966Chiefly letters to job applicants. |
Folder 69 |
Personnel, 1967Contains letters, resumes, curriculum vitae, and applications. |
Folder 70 |
Personnel, 1968Contains letters, resumes, curriculum vitae, and applications. |
Folder 71 |
Personnel, 1968Chiefly letters to job applicants. Includes a document from the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare with "Suggestions for Recruiting Military Medical Personnel for Civilian Health Occupations." |
Folder 72 |
Personnel, 1969Chiefly letters to job applicants. Includes a 27 January 1969 letter to Count D. Gibson, Jr., from Jack Geiger discussing living conditions for Tufts-Delta Health Center staff. He writes, "We live in trailers or small dilapidated local houses, often with wives and two or three children in less than 700 square feet of space. We drink contaminated water....For complex reasons, we live in social isolation from most of the black and white communities." |
Folder 73 |
Personnel, 1969Chiefly letters to job applicants. |
Folder 74 |
Personnel, 1970Chiefly letters to job applicants. |
Folder 75 |
Personnel, 1971-1972Includes letters pertaining to recruitment and the merger of Tufts-Delta Health Center with Mound Bayou Community Hospital. |
Folder 76 |
Personnel, undatedContains job descriptions for a field technician and pharmacy secretary and a budget justification for temporary physicians. |
Folder 77 |
Organization charts, circa 1968"Steps toward the organization of a Health Council in Northern Bolivar County." |
Folder 78 |
Housing, 1969-1970Correspondence pertaining to housing for the Tufts-Delta Health Center's faculty and staff. |
Folder 79 |
Tufts-Delta Health Center staff directory, circa 1970Includes staff members' schools, entry dates, and departments. |
Folder 80 |
Aaron Gerber, 1970Recommendation and other materials assembled for Gerber's promotion. |
Folder 81 |
Salaries, 1970Includes salary justifications for individuals and positions. |
Folder 82 |
Physician recruitment, 1972-1993Includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, and notes by Jack Geiger. In a 28 November 1988 letter to L.C. Dorsey, Jack Geiger writes, "The problems faced by physicians in rural areas and in practice like the Delta Health Center include: social and intellectual isolation, professional isolation and limitation (inability to conduct hospital practice, limited number of colleagues and consultants); housing; money (low health center salaries vs. other opportunities); amenities; educational facilities for children; job opportunities for spouses." |
Folder 83 |
Staff alumni, 1991-1992Directory information about alumni and a letter from a former Tufts-Delta Health Center staff member. |
Folder 84-85
Folder 84Folder 85 |
Labor dispute, 1994National Labor Relations Board v. Delta Health Center, Inc. |
Folder 86 |
Obituaries of former staff, undatedCopies of obituaries for Count Dillon Gibson, Jr., Sister Mary Stella Simpson, and Christian M. Hansen, Jr. |
Correspondence, memoranda, contracts and agreements, newspaper clippings, meeting minutes, reports, and printed materials comprise the series. Materials pertain chiefly to the first decade of the Health Center including its founding and the complex and often difficult relationships and dealings it had with the Office of Economic Opportunity, the established local medical community, and the political, social, and racial hierarchies in the town and county.
Memoranda, correspondence, legal documents, publicity materials, and newspaper clippings pertain to the founding of the Health Center, recruitment of staff, construction of the clinic, and municipal services from the Town of Mound Bayou.
Folder 87 |
Memorandum, 14 April 1966"To: Sargent Shriver. Subject: Tufts Medical School Project, Bolivar County, Miss." The memo's author recommends that "Tufts should formally forswear any civil rights activities as part of the program." |
Folder 88 |
Construction agreement, 1968Agreement with contractor and the Tufts-Delta Health Center Trust to construct a community health center in Mound Bayou, Miss. |
Folder 89 |
Tufts-Delta Health Center Trust, 1967-1970Includes the 1967 declaration of trust. |
Folder 90 |
Special Warranty Deed for Town of Mound Bayou, 1967-1969"This conveyance is made for the purpose of enabling the Grantee to locate a water well on the parcel of land hereby conveyed, which well will supply water for the Town of Mound Bayou, Mississippi, including the Tufts-Delta Health Center and its allied activities." |
Folder 91 |
Tufts-Delta Health Center Publicity, 1969-1993Includes correspondence, magazine clippings, and a booklet about Mound Bayou. |
Folder 92 |
"Healthcare with Care," undatedDocument outlines the Delta Health Center's profile, philosophy and goals, the surrounding area, educational opportunities, and benefits for center staff. The likely intent of the document is recruitment of physicians and other medical personnel. "The staff of DHC, Inc. has a dual commitment of assisting people with the difficult task of living wisely and providing high quality health care services which are accessible, affordable and acceptable to the cultural and social mores of the community." |
Correspondence, press releases, statements, meeting minutes, and other documents pertain to the difficulties faced by Jack Geiger and other Health Center leaders and proponents who started the Health Center. Geiger identified the "struggles" reflected in the documents and included some explanatory notes. They were with state and local governments, broader local and state power structures, the local medical community, the Office of Economic Opportunity, and Tufts University.
Folder 93 |
"Struggle with Mississippi," 1965-1966Chiefly correspondence including a 9 March 1966 letter to Mississippi Governor Paul B. Johnson from the president of Tufts University about the plans to construct and operate the Tufts-Delta Health Center and Johnson's 24 March 1966 response stating his opposition. Of note is a 18 March 1966 letter to Jack Geiger from a local physician who opposed the Health Center. "I challenge you or anyone else to prove to me your right to come into an area such as ours and cause discord and havoc with your massive 'free medicine' program in spite of obvious resistance from all organized areas such as the State Medical Association, the local medical association, the local physicians and the people. We want you to know that we will resist your every move prior to your location in this area." |
Folder 94 |
"Struggle with Mound Bayou Mafia," 1966Documents include a list of attendees to a 1967 HEW conference, press release from OEO about the health centers in Boston, Mass., and Mississippi opening, minutes of 1967 executive meeting in Mound Bayou, and a copy of a statement from United States Senator Ted Kennedy. "I am particularly gratified by the success of the neighborhood health centers program, which is authorized by an amendment I introduced to the poverty program legislation." |
Folder 95 |
"Struggle with OEO," 1967Documents include a list of attendees to a 1967 HEW conference, press release from OEO about Boston and Mississippi health centers opening, minutes of 1967 executive meeting in Mound Bayou, and a copy of a statement from United States Senator Ted Kennedy. "I am particularly gratified by the success of the neighborhood health centers program, which is authorized by an amendment I introduced to the poverty program legislation." |
Folder 96 |
"Struggle with Tufts," 1967-1969Contains correspondence chiefly from 1966. Includes explanatory notes written by Jack Geiger. Also included is a 1969 article "Health Care in the Mississippi Delta." |
Correspondence, memoranda, contracts, meeting minutes, reports, explanatory notes and commentary written by Geiger, and other materials pertain to the complex relationships between the Health Center, Tufts University, the Taborian Hospital run by the African American fraternal order the Knights and Daughters of Tabor, the Mound Bayou Community Hospital, Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tenn., and the Office of Economic Opportunity. Materials concerning the development of a community board reflect a sharp divide in the interests of the middle class and impoverished African American communities.
Folder 97 |
Taborian Hospital, 1966Contracts between Taborian Hospital in Mound Bayou, Miss., and Tufts University in Massachusetts. |
Folder 98 |
Taborian Hospital, 1966Chiefly correspondence about Taborian Hospital's financial crisis, including letters sent to President Lyndon Johnson. "A Negro fraternal order known as the Knights & Daughters of Tabor has maintained a hospital in the Town of Mound Bayou...This Order has done an excellent job of furnishing medical care to low-income groups through the years. However, at the present time the organization faces a severe crisis because of shortage of funds." Also includes explanatory notes written by Jack Geiger. "This material documents the desperate situation of the 2 hospitals on the brink of bankruptcy and having lost their accreditation for the first time...[and] the enormous effort Tufts went to, with OEO approval to funnel $25,000 in emergency funds to Taborian." |
Folder 99 |
Taborian Hospital, 1966Includes minutes of the hospital board's meetings. |
Folder 100 |
Meharry Medical College and Mound Bayou Community Hospital, 1966-1969Chiefly correspondence. Includes explanatory notes written by Jack Geiger. |
Folder 101 |
Community Board, 1966-1970Contains a 15 December 1966 letter to John Frankel, director of the Office of Health Affairs in OEO's Community Action Program, from John W. Hatch discussing the development of a community board for Mound Bayou's healthcare facilities. Included are reports on community organizing written by Hatch. Also included are explanatory notes written by Geiger. "This is precisely what did NOT happen with the meetings to elect a community hospital board. Instead, there really were no representative public meetings and the board was dominated by representatives of the fraternal orders...saw the OEO bailout of hospitals simply as a means of preserving their for-profit hospital insurance business." |
Folder 102 |
Meharry Medical College Quarterly Digest, April 1966
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Folder 103 |
"Frankel to Walker," 1966Contains a letter from John Frankel, director of the health division of the Community Action Program of OEO, to Matthew Walker, who was associated with Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tenn. Includes explanatory notes written by Jack Geiger. "In this letter he recognizes the early attempt by Dr. Walker (and possibly others at Meharry who were chafing over the perceived Tufts invasion of their Turf) to turn the Bashville CHC grant (which I largely wrote for them) into being also a grant for a Second CHC in Mound Bayou." |
Folder 104 |
"Forming a New Board," 1967Contains correspondence, memoranda, and meeting minutes. Includes explanatory notes written by Jack Geiger. "This material is all about the efforts by John Frankel an OEO to assure that the two fraternal order hospitals would truly be transformed into a community hospital, funded by OEO, with a board representing the target population of poor people, rather than the director of the fraternal orders." |
Folder 105 |
"Forming a New Board," 1967Contains correspondence and memoranda and a summary of action from John W. Hatch. Includes explanatory notes written by Jack Geiger. "This material is all about the efforts by John Frankel and OEO to assure that the two fraternal order hospitals would truly be transformed into a community hospital, funded by OEO, with a board representing the target population of poor people, rather than the directors of the fraternal orders." |
Folder 106 |
"Mauer Incident, Takeover Attempt," 1968Includes explanatory notes written by Jack Geiger. "It begins with a major attempt by the Mound Bayou Community Hospital Board, representing both the interests of the fraternal orders and of the town government of Mound Bayou to obtain total control of the Tufts Delta Health Center, its budget and operations." |
Folder 107 |
"Mound Bayou Takeover," 1968Chiefly copies of correspondence with OEO concerning Mound Bayou Community Hospital. Includes explanatory notes written by Jack Geiger. "What is striking in retrospect is the unwavering repetition of the attempt already rejected by John Frankel of OEO, earlier to define the MBCH as a comprehensive community health center, and to define the Mound Bayou elites as the real representatives of the poor." |
Folder 108 |
"Pre-Mauer Takeover Attempt," 1968Lightly annotated copies of a documents, chiefly correspondence and memoranda. Includes explanatory notes written by Jack Geiger. "There were 3 struggle 1) MS [Mississippi] white power structure + local med [medical] community 2) MB [Mound Bayou] elite 3) OEO problem w OEO: its insistence on instant community organizing + resistance (pressure on Hatch) to real comm-organizing." |
Folder 109 |
"Mauer Takeover," 1968-1969Contains correspondence, memoranda, and meeting minutes. Includes explanatory notes written by Jack Geiger. "This packet covers the crucial events of August and September 1968. It begins with a major attempt by the Mound Bayou Community Hospital Board, representing both the interests of the fraternal orders and of the town government of Mound Bayou to obtain total control of the Tufts Delta Health Center, its budget and operations." |
Folder 110 |
Meharry Medical College and Mound Bayou Community Hospital, 1969Chiefly correspondence. Includes explanatory notes written by Jack Geiger. |
Folder 111 |
"Post-Mauer Takeover Attempt," 1969Lightly annotated copies of a documents, chiefly correspondence with the Tufts-Delta Health Center, Mound Bayou Community Hospital, OEO, and Tufts University Medical School. |
Folder 112-113
Folder 112Folder 113 |
"The Letter," 1969-1970Contains correspondence, memoranda, and meeting minutes. Includes explanatory notes written by Jack Geiger. "This packet contains some of the fall-out from Dean Maloney's [Tufts University Medical School] letter to Tom Bryant at OEO on August 13th, demanding resolution of the quality problems at the hospital. That letter was written by the Dean at my urging, and quite possibly on the basis of draft by me." |
Folder 114 |
Meharry Medical College and Mound Bayou Community Hospital, undatedDraft proposal: "It is suggested that Meharry Medical College and the Mound Bayou Community Hospital enter into an affiliation…for the purpose of improving quality of patient care." |
Correspondence, memoranda, contracts, meeting minutes, reports, explanatory notes and commentary written by Geiger, newspaper clippings, by-laws, and other materials pertain to the merger in 1971 of the Health Center and the Mound Bayou Community Hospital and the consequences of the merger. Also reflected in the materials is the quality of health care in Mound Bayou, Miss., before the merger, which was mandated by the Office of Economic Opportunity.
Folder 115 |
"Medical Care Operations," 1966-1971Chiefly copies of letters written by Jack Geiger to the OEO, the U.S. Department of Health Education, United States Senator Edward Kennedy, and Mississippi's medical community. In a 21 May 1968 letter to Guy Campbell at the University of Mississippi Medical School in Jackson, Miss., Geiger describes the Tuft-Delta Health Center's operations and staff. "We are, in effect, a full-scale comprehensive health care facility attempting to serve all of the population below the poverty income level in a 500 square mile area....By mid-July we will have completed a very adequate and fully equipped health center facility, including laboratory, x-ray, pharmacy and other supporting services; we will have completed a full staff of internists, pediatricians, obstetricians-gynecologists, a surgeon, generalists...public health nurses, licensed practical nurses, nurse aides and family health workers. In addition, we have a significant staff in community organization and community health action (which includes health education, nurse-midwifery and prenatal care...a full time professional sanitarian and various assistants in environmental hygiene.)" |
Folder 116-117
Folder 116Folder 117 |
Merger, 1966-1973Merger of the Mound Bayou Community Hospital and the Tufts-Delta Health Center. |
Folder 118 |
Mound Bayou Community Hospital medical and dental staff, 1968
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Folder 119 |
Mound Bayou Community Hospital, 1968Transcription of a conversation between Jack Geiger and Dr. Brown about the quality of care provided at the Mound Bayou Community Hospital. |
Folder 120 |
Mound Bayou Community Hospital "Quality Problems," 1968Includes medical case information. |
Folder 121 |
Mound Bayou Community Hospital, 1968Contains correspondence with OEO about the quality of care provided at Mound Bayou Community Hospital and minutes of a physicians' meeting at Tufts-Delta Health Center. In a 27 July 1968 letter to Ann Haendel at OEO, Jack Geiger writes, "I know that there are staffing shortages and problems, and I know that some of these troubles have afflicted the hospital for a long time and the OEO grant was intended to help correct them. Yet more than a year after the initial grant the quality of care is such that it cannot be defended. I think OEO would be extremely vulnerable if a critic were to document the quality of care being provided to impoverished Delta Negroes under OEO auspices." |
Folder 122 |
"Post Mauer Coordination and Cooperation," 1969Includes correspondence, memos, and staff meeting minutes. Also included is a copy of an undated list of fifteen grievances and recommendations from "We the Black Students of TDHC." Among the grievances was the assertion that "Tufts has perpetuated racism by capitalizing on Mary Holmes students for cheap labor. Tufts should make an effort to at least pay tuition for these students and/or provide room and board for them." |
Folder 123 |
Mound Bayou Community Hospital, 1969Contains correspondence with OEO about the quality of care provided at Mound Bayou Community Hospital. Of interest is a confidential document titled "Observation on Mound Bayou Community Hospital," which offers numerous examples of inadequate facilities, incompetent staff, and poor care, particularly obstetric care, resulting in injury and death. |
Folder 124 |
Mound Bayou Community Hospital, 1970Chiefly correspondence between Tufts-Delta Health Center, OEO, and the Town of Mound Bayou. Includes explanatory notes written by Jack Geiger. |
Folder 125 |
North Bolivar County Health Council, 1970-1972Includes a letter from Andrew James, director of the Tufts-Delta Health Center and a newspaper clipping about the "clash" between the Center and Mound Bayou Community Hospital. |
Folder 126 |
Merger, 1971Merger of the Mound Bayou Community Hospital and the Tufts-Delta Health Center. |
Folder 127-129
Folder 127Folder 128Folder 129 |
"Forced Merger," 1971-1972Merger of the Mound Bayou Community Hospital and the Tufts-Delta Health Center. |
Folder 130 |
Memorandum to SUNY Stonybrook on merger with Mound Bayou Community Hospital, 1972Lightly annotated copy of document in the Delta Health Center Records held at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
Folder 131 |
Memorandum to staff on merger with Mound Bayou Community Hospital, 1972Lightly annotated copy of document in the Delta Health Center Records held at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
Folder 132 |
Site visit report, 1972Lightly annotated copy of document in the Delta Health Center Records held at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
Folder 133 |
Letter to Memphis Commercial Appeal, 31 July 1972"From all the years since it first started, it was the health center that did all the pioneering and all the innovating and all the developing of health programs. Your report that it was just an 'outpatient facility primarily aimed at treating malnutrition' is just plain wrong, and the kind of junk that the Mound Bayou Hospital people always told you. It was the health center that gave full-scale medical care for everything. It was the health center that has the environmental health program and built privies and wells and rebuilt housing and started the farm cooperative...[signed] Sad Nurse." |
Folder 134 |
Memorandum of agreement, circa 1972"This memorandum summarizes the agreement reached at a conference of Mr. William Lafayette, Administrator, Mound Bayou Community Hospital, and Dr. H. Jack Geiger, Director, Tufts-Delta Health Center, on policies for referral of TDHC patients to MBCH." |
Folder 135 |
Governor Waller's veto, 1972Memoranda and newspaper clippings about Mississippi Governor William Waller's veto of the grant application to the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) by the Delta Community Hospital and Health Center. Includes explanatory notes written by Jack Geiger. |
Folder 136-137
Folder 136Folder 137 |
Mound Bayou Community Hospital, 1972-1976Lightly annotated copies of documents in the Delta Health Center Records held at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
Folder 138 |
"The Gap," 1972-1984Includes explanatory notes written by Jack Geiger. "This folder has minutes of the new board of the merged institutions, providing one window into what went on during the early years of the merger." |
Folder 139 |
"Documents for your research and writing on the 1972-84 period," 1972-1984Included is a 2006 letter from Jack Geiger to historian John Dittmer who received this group of documents. "Enclosed are very important documents for your research and writing on the 1972-84 period. While this is not the actual letter or document ending the Lucas/Mound Bayou Mafia's (my biased name) control of the health center...it does state the terms and identify the important names." |
Folder 140 |
"New Hospital," 1972-1983Lightly annotated copies of documents, chiefly correspondence, in the Delta Health Center Records at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Includes explanatory notes from Jack Geiger. |
Folder 141 |
"New Hospital," 1973-1978
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Folder 142 |
"New Hospital," 1975-1978
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Folder 143 |
"Mound Bayou Community Hospital Fact Sheet," circa 1980Includes demographic information about patients. |
Folder 144 |
Mound Bayou Community Hospital, 1983Fund-raising report and progress report for "new replacement facility." |
Folder 145 |
Mound Bayou Community Hospital, 1983Newspaper clippings. |
Folder 146 |
"Mound Bayou Later Years," 1984-1992Chiefly newspaper clippings and some correspondence with an explanatory note from Jack Geiger. "This all refers to the action by the HEW regional office in 1984 ordering that the old health center board and management be thrown out, or the Health Center will be closed." |
Folder 147 |
"Washington Report," undatedReport on a meeting called by United Sates Senator Thad Cochran. Gordon Peters is quoted. "'The matter of this hospital's survival goes far beyond political, economic, or social issues…The issue of Mound Bayou Community Hospital's survival and improvement becomes a moral issue as well.'" |
Folder 148 |
"Report of the Subcommittee on Merger," undated
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Folder 149 |
Health Council Board of Directors, undated"Summary of comments to the Health Council Board of Directors...At the present time many people believe that reorganization of health care is needed and that the 'systems' in broader use today are not capable of providing good care to 'all' people." |
Folder 150 |
"New Hospital," undated"Bylaws for the Regulation, Except as Otherwise Provided by Statute or its Articles of Incorporation, of Mississippi Delta Community Health Care Foundation." |
Folder 151 |
Mississippi Delta Community Health Care Foundation, undated"Conception & Purpose." |
Newspaper clippings, scattered issues of the Mound Bayou newspaper, magazine articles, and other printed materials including brochures pertain to towns and counties in the Mississippi Delta. Other materials include correspondence, statistics on infant mortality in Bolivar County, Miss., a municipal project proposal, an economic development assessment, and a funding proposal to the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority. Of interest is a 1970 set of demands from the African American community of Rosedale, Miss., that were submitted to the town's merchants.
Folder 152 |
East Bolivar County Hospital, 1962Brochure. |
Folder 153 |
Jewel of the Delta, 1962Booklet celebrating the 75th anniversary of Mound Bayou, Miss. |
Folder 154 |
Bolivar County, Miss., 1965-1966Contains notes about Bolivar County's Community Action Program (CAP), a newspaper clipping about Head Start, and typescript sheets with demographic information compiled by SNCC. |
Folder 155 |
"Mound Bayou," 1967-1970Includes a document listing the major sources of employment in Mound Bayou, Miss., in 1969. The top employers were Head Start programs, Mound Bayou Community Hospital, Tufts-Delta Health Center, and the Mound Bayou Public School. |
Folder 156 |
"Mississippi State," 1970Contains correspondence with the Mississippi State Board of Health. |
Folder 157 |
"Rosedale Black Community," 1970"On the night of August 18 1970, the Black Community formulated the following demands to be presented by letter to you [Merchants of Rosedale, Miss.] and the mayor of the town. 1.An adequate municipal sewage system throughout the black community, 2. An ample supply of chlorinated water throughout the black community. ... 7. Recreational facilities that are adequate to the need of our young people. 8. Fair treatment of black people by the police force, and increase in the number of black policemen in proportion to the number of blacks in Rosedale's population." |
Folder 158 |
"Rosedale, Miss.," 1980Lightly annotated copies of documents, chiefly correspondence pertaining to Rosedale, Miss., and Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, in the Delta Health Center Records at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
Folder 159 |
Town of Gunnison Administrative Assistance Proposal, 1981Proposal made to the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority. "The main objective of this proposal is to secure finding for salaries that will accommodate a full-time mayor and a secretary/bookkeeper." |
Folder 160 |
Rosalynn Carter and Betty Bumpers, "Every Child By Two-Mississippi Tour," 1992
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Folder 161 |
United States Representative Mike Espy, 1992Contains a letter and press release about the "House Bank." |
Folder 162 |
Economic Development Assessment for the City of Mound Bayou, Miss., 1 June 1995"Prepared for Mound Bayouians for Mound Bayou by Matthew Preston, Department of City and Regional Planning, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill." |
Folder 163 |
Infant mortality statistics, circa 1995Bolivar County, Miss. |
Folder 164 |
Mound Bayou printed items, 2005 and undated"The Mound Bayou Mississippi Story," and a memorial service program for Milburn J. "Sonny Boy" Crowe, "Mississippi's Treasure." |
Folder 165 |
Truth Productions present Mound Bayou, a film by Brad Lichtenstein, undatedA lightly annotated description of the documentary film. Mound Bayou "is a documentary film about the survival of the community of Mound Bayou, Mississippi, an all black town founded during reconstruction by former slaves....The film features the people of Mound Bayou telling their story of survival, beginning with their roots on the plantations of Joseph and Jefferson Davis and tracing their history to the present." |
Folder 166 |
Mound Bayou multi-purpose neighborhood center, undatedDocument outlines a plan for a neighborhood center and the plan to apply for a grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for its construction. The center plan contains descriptions of educational programming, including adult literacy and job training, and social service programs for mental health and welfare. The proposed center would include a library and an auditorium for cultural programs. |
Folder 167 |
Delta Photo Road Show, undatedBooklet subtitled "Discovering the Unknown Photos of the Mississippi Delta." |
Folder 168 |
He's Doing Something About the Race Problem, 1946Article by Hodding Carter in the Saturday Evening Post. |
Folder 169 |
A Stir of Hope in Mound Bayou, 1969Article by Richard Hall in LIFE Magazine. |
Folder 170-171
Folder 170Folder 171 |
Newspaper clippings, 1960s
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Folder 172-173
Folder 172Folder 173 |
Newspaper clippings, 1970s
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Folder 174 |
Newspaper clippings, 1980s-1990s
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Folder 175 |
Down and Out in the Delta, 1990Article by Clay Hathorn. |
Folder 176 |
Newspaper clippings, undated
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Oversize Paper OP-05699/1 |
The Mound Bayou Voice, 5 April 1968
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Oversize Paper OP-05699/2 |
The Voice, Mound Bayou newspaper, 12-16 July 1970
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The Voice, Mound Bayou newspaper, 31 July-4 August 1970
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The Voice, Mound Bayou newspaper, 6-20 October 1970
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The Voice, Mound Bayou newspaper, 17-30 January 1971
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The Voice, Mound Bayou newspaper, 11 Febraury-1 March 1971
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Notes, correspondence, newspaper clippings, chronologies and time lines of events, scholarly articles, and narratives comprise the series. Jack Geiger's correspondence is chiefly with historians John Dittmer and Thomas J. Ward and with former Health Center colleagues L.C. Dorsey, John W. Hatch, and Andrew James. During the early 2000s Geiger and Hatch worked with Dittmer and Ward to research and publish a history of the Health Center that included the perspectives of Dorsey, Geiger, and Hatch, all of whom wrote personal narratives for the book projects.
Grant criteria and proposal, budgets, notes, correspondence, newspaper clippings, a book activities report, chronologies and time lines of events, and book outlines pertain to projects pursued by Geiger with others to write the Health Center's history. Correspondence is chiefly with historians Thomas J. Ward, Jr., and John Dittmer and former Health Center colleagues L.C. Dorsey, John W. Hatch, and Andrew James.
Folder 177 |
National Institute of Health grant criteria, 1992Health Services Research on Rural Health awards. |
Folder 178 |
"History of healthcare," 1992-2007Chiefly correspondence and clippings related to the "History of Healthcare in Mississippi" project. |
Folder 179 |
Medical Committee for Human Rights, 2004 and undatedDraft of questions about MCHR and an obituary for Leslie A. Falk, M.D. |
Folder 180 |
Book project, circa 2004Includes notes, background information, and budgets for a book project on the Tufts-Delta Health Center. |
Folder 181 |
Ford Foundation grant proposal, 2004
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Folder 182 |
Correspondence, 2004-2005
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Folder 183 |
Correspondence, 2004-2009Letters received by Jack Geiger and sent to L.C. Dorsey and John W. Hatch about the book project. |
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Robert Wood Johnston Foundation grant criteria, 2005
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Folder 186 |
"Book Activities Report," 2006L.C. Dorsey writes, "I was in the clinic the first week they opened with my youngest children….I was unemployed, had six children and my husband made $36.00 per week." |
Folder 187 |
Correspondence, 2006-2007
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Folder 188 |
Correspondence, 2006-2009Print outs of email messages exchanged between Jack Geiger and Andrew James who was the director of Environmental Health at Tufts-Delta Health Center. |
Folder 189 |
Correspondence, 2011-2012Letters to historian Thomas J. Ward, Jr., from Jack Geiger and historian John Dittmer. |
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Correspondence, 2013-2014
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Folder 191 |
Notes from Jack Geiger, undatedIn one note, Geiger alludes to "Sargent Shriver's spy, who was following me around Mississippi as I spoke to different Mississippi medical societies about our plans for the Delta Health Center and the need for it." N.B., The spy's report to which Geiger refers was not found in the collection. |
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"Delta Health Center Time line: Nov. 1965-May 1966," undated
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Folder 193 |
"Chronology of Conflict in Mound Bayou," undatedCompiled by Jack Geiger. |
Folder 194 |
"Tom Ward," undatedNotes for historian Thomas J. Ward, Jr., pertaining to the book project. Includes a list of "People Who Could Be Contacted." |
Folder 195 |
"The New Book Outline," undated"John [Hatch], Jack [Geiger], L.C. [Dorsey] Chapter 1 Who we are, what in our lives led us to Mound Bayou, 3 voices in one chapter." |
Folder 196 |
"John Dittmer," undatedChiefly clippings with a letter to historian John Dittmer from Jack Geiger. Included in the clippings is a 1948 Saturday Evening Post article titled "The Color Line in Medicine." |
Folder 197 |
Tufts-Delta Health Center time lines, undated
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Chiefly handwritten notes taken by Jack Geiger and John Dittmer while they were conducting archival research. Also included are annotated copies of finding aids and inventories for archival collections related to the Health Center, particularly the Delta Health Center Records held at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Archives notes, circa 2005-2009 and undatedChiefly notes taken by Jack Geiger and historian John Dittmer while researching the Tufts-Delta Health Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill which holds the Delta Health Center Records. |
Folder 205 |
"Out in the Rural," undatedHandwritten notes possibly made about the short film of that title produced and directed by Judy Schader Rogers in 1969. |
Folder 206-208
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Annotated finding aids, undatedCopies of finding aids and inventories of archival collections related to Tufts-Delta Health Center. Several lightly annotated copies of the finding aid for the Delta Health Center Records held at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are included. |
Folder 209-211
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Inventories, undatedInventories of documents and recordings Jack Geiger compiled for the book project. |
Materials are scholarly historical articles and essays about the Mississippi's plantation economy, race and class in the Mississippi Delta, civil rights, community health centers, and African American fraternal orders.
Scholarly public health articles, essays, and book excerpts pertain to community health centers, rural health, African American physicians, ethics and morality in healthcare, reform, human rights, and health services and medical care for poor African American communities.
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Health on Wheels in Mississippi: The Mississippi Rural Health Project of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, 1941
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Folder 221 |
The President of the N.M.A. and the Director of the FBI, 1956
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Folder 222 |
Mississippi Medicine, 1968Booklet by Carl M. Cobb with sections titled "Tufts Plan Negroes Only Ray of Hope," "New Hospital is By-Product of Tufts Project," "Sit and Die for Lack of $3," "Starvation Leading Medical Problem," "Teaching Self-Help in Bolivar County," |
Folder 223 |
Delivery of Pediatric Health Services in a Rural Health Center, 1969Article by Roy E. Brown. |
Folder 224 |
Community Shares in Policy Decisions for Rural Health Center, 1969Article by John W. Hatch. |
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The Community Part in Health Center Program, 1969"For presentation at the 97th annual meeting of the Public Health Association...by Mrs. Pearlia B. Robinson. Community Development Worker, Tufts Delta Health Center." |
Folder 226 |
Moral Consciousness and Commitment in Mound Bayou, 1970Article in the Meharry Medical College Quarterly Digest. |
Folder 227 |
Hidden Professional Roles: The Physician as Reactionary Reformer, Revolutionary, 1971Article by Jack Geiger. |
Folder 228 |
The Pediatrician and Family Planning in a Very Poor Community: An Appraisal of Experiences in the Tufts Delta Health Center, Bolivar County, Mississippi, 1972Article by Christian M. Hansen, Jr. |
Folder 229 |
"New Federalism" and the Death of a Dream in Mound Bayou, Mississippi, 1973Article by Joseph Huttie, Jr. |
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Freedom Came to Mississippi, 1977By L.C. Dorsey. |
Folder 231 |
Sumter County Blues: The Ordeal of the Federation of Southern Cooperatives, 1982Report by Thomas N. Bethell. |
Folder 232 |
Harder Times Than These, 1982Article by L.C. Dorsey. |
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Reforming Medicine: Lessons of the Last Quarter Century, 1984
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Folder 234 |
Community-Oriented Primary Care: The Health Center Experience, 1984Booklet produced by the National Association of Community Health Centers, Inc. |
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We Went to Mississippi, 1987Article by M. Phyllis Cunningham, Helen Richardson Sanders, and Patricia Weatherly. |
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Community Health Centers: The Early Years of the Movement, 1990Draft report by Larry T. Patton. |
Folder 237 |
The Impact of Steuart's Philosophy on the Development of the Delta Health Center, 1991Paper by John W. Hatch. "The most important formal organization was the church and its many auxiliaries that catered to special age, sex and status grouping in the community. It was through observation of this organization that I was best able to gain understanding of status and role positions within black rural and small town communities in Mississippi." |
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New Factory Workers in Old Farming Communities, 1992A national conference sponsored by the Institute for Public Policy and Business Research, University of Kansas. |
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Rural and Small Town African-American Populations and Human Rights in Post Industrial Society, circa 1999Article by John W. Hatch and Anita P. Holmes. |
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Community-Oriented Primary Care: A Path to Community Development, 2002Article by Jack Geiger. |
Folder 241 |
The Role of a Historically Black University and the Black Church in Community-Based Health Initiatives: The Project DIRECT Experience, 2003Article by La Verne Reid, John W. Hatch, and Theodore Parrish. |
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Civil Rights, the War on Poverty, and Black-White Convergence in Infant Mortality in Mississippi, 2003Report by Douglas V. Almond, Kenneth Y. Chay, and Michael Greenstone. |
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Up from Mississippi: How Tufts Made a Difference in the Deep South, 2003Article by Bruce Morgan in magazine Tufts Medicine for the Medical Alumni Association at Tufts University. |
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Community Research: Partnership in Black Communities, circa 2005Article by John W. Hatch, Nancy Moss, and Ama Saran. |
Folder 245 |
The Health Center Story: Forty Years of Commitment, 2005Article by Bonnie Lefkowitz. |
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The First Community Health Centers: A Model of Enduring Value, 2005Article by Jack Geiger. |
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"Hold your head up and stick out your chin:" Community Health and Women's Health in Mound Bayou, Mississippi, 2005Article by Jennifer Nelson. |
Folder 248 |
Health Disparities: What Do We Know? What Do We Need to Know? What Should We Do?, 2006Copy of a chapter by Jack Geiger in the book Gender, Race, Class & Health: Intersectional Approaches. |
Folder 249 |
Mississippi: Where It All Began, 2007Copy of a chapter in Bonnie Lefkowitz's book Community Health Centers: A Movement and the People Who Made It Happen. |
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Reap What You Sow: A Doctor, Mentor, and Activist Nurtures Young Minds Destined for Medicine, 2007Article by Sharon Tregaskis in magazine Brown Medicine for the alumni and friends of the Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University. |
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Right or Commodity? Health Care, Social Medicine & Cause Doctors of the 1960s and 1970s, 2008Article by Abby Goldman. Also includes a book review by Goldman. |
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Health Care Reform and Primary Care: The Growing Importance of the Community Health Center, 2010Article by Eli Y. Adashi, Jack Geiger, and Michael D. Fine. |
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The Obama Administration and Community Health Centers, circa 2012Report pertaining to the Affordable Care Act and Recovery Act. |
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John Hatch on Community Organizing in the Mississippi Delta, 1965, 2014
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Dollars for Reform: The OEO Neighborhood Health Centers, 10981Copies of selected pages from the book by Isabel Marcus. |
Folder 256 |
Community Participation and Control: Or Control of Community Participation, undatedArticle by John W. Hatch and Eugenia Eng. |
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A Health Center in Mississippi: A Case Study in Social Medicine, undatedArticle by Jack Geiger. |
Folder 258 |
The Neighborhood Health Center: Background and Current Issues, undatedArticle by Lisbeth Bamberger Schorr. |
Folder 259 |
Now is the Summer of Our Discontent, undatedArticle by Edward J. Sachar. |
Chiefly typescript narratives written by L.C. Dorsey, Jack Geiger, and John W. Hatch for one or more of the book projects. The narratives provide personal context for their work with the Health Center and reflect their perspectives on race, class, and gender in the Mississippi Delta of the mid twentieth-century. The narratives also reveal their views on the community health movement and the social and environmental justice initiatives undertaken by the Health Center in Mound Bayou, Miss. Also included are two audio recordings from a meeting of the National Association of Community Health Centers, Inc., with Jack Geiger and L.C. Dorsey discussing the history of the Health Center and Dorsey's personal story and background.
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Freedom Came to Mississippi,Copies of pages from the book by L.C. Dorsey. |
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L.C. Dorsey narrative, undated"Everything was segregated and everyone knew his or her places. Whites did not visit the Black communities except to pick-up or bring home people who worked for them. " |
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L.C. Dorsey narratives, undated
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L.C. Dorsey quotations, undated
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"Road to Mound Bayou," 2006Drafts of typescript narrative by Jack Geiger. "If the social and biological and physical and economic and political environments, not just medical care, were the real determinants of any populations' health, why couldn't that equation be run backwards?...Why couldn't medicine be an instrument of social change?" |
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Jack Geiger narrative, undatedIn a lengthy typescript narrative with annotations, Geiger describes the development of health services in Bolivar County, Miss. Includes discussions of the county's white planters, political hurdles for the Health Center, and the medical establishment in Mississippi. |
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Jack Geiger narrative, undatedTypescript narrative. In one section, Geiger describes meeting with local physicians in the Mississippi Delta, including Robert Hollingsworth, who "told us about his real views about multi-racial societies which he felt he had to keep secret of course in Shelby and not be too open about it or else they'd run him out of town, very much on our side." |
Folder 268 |
Jack Geiger narratives, undatedTypescript narrative. In one section, Geiger describes the American Medical Association in relation to race and discrimination in county and state medical societies. "This was more than a social slight, for one had to belong to the local medical society in order to obtain hospital privileges....The AMA claimed that while it opposed racial discrimination, it was powerless to compel the local medical societies to admit African-American physicians. MCHR picketed at AMA conventions from 1963-1968, when the organization finally reversed its policy." |
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"My Journey," undatedAnnotated copies of typescript narrative written by John W. Hatch. "By the time I was four years old, I was aware of color identification. By 5, I had mastered the rudiments of survival in a color caste society." |
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John W. Hatch narrative, undatedOn race and class structure in Mound Bayou, Miss., Hatch writes, "Like their white benefactors, not all gatekeeper blacks were viewed alike, some were master strategists who succeeded in gaining resources desperately needed by the black community without concern for personal gain." |
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"Community Organization," undatedA typescript narrative written by John W. Hatch. "While most had been poor all of their lives, they were now worse off because of the displacement of farm labor by weed control agents and cotton harvesting equipment. The economic well-being of plantation owners was no longer dependent on a mass black peasantry healthy enough to plant, cultivate and harvest the crop. Some producers cared about those displaced and allowed them to remain on the plantations and grow gardens. Others evicted former tenants and burned the tenant shacks to the ground. In many ways this period was reminiscent of stories my grandmother told about the life of her family in the years immediately following the Civil War." |
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"Community Organization," undatedA heavily annotated typescript narrative written by John W. Hatch. |
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"Prep Academy," undatedA typescript narrative possibly written by John W. Hatch about an educational program in Mound Bayou, Miss. "A significant part of my education had taken place in terribly inadequate conditions. Other African American staff with early roots in the rural south had similar experiences. Yet with remedial help and hard work, we had matriculated successfully in rigorous academic programs....We believed we could identify bright, motivated people in the Delta capable of similar achievement." |
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"Prep Academy," undatedAn annotated typescript narrative possibly written by John W. Hatch. |
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"Down in the Mississippi Delta," undatedLightly annotated copy of a book chapter. |
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Clay E. Simpson narrative and resume, 2006"As a volunteer, I had already become involved in identifying programs and places where diamonds in the rough could gain a chance to further their education, especially in health and welfare fields. My initial task as Director of Education was to gather as much individual information as possible on educational levels of each nonprofessional staff member." |
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National Association of Community Health Centers, Inc., 25 February 1996Audiocassette Tape Log (adapted from the donor's description):
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National Association of Community Health Centers, Inc., 25 February 1996Audiocassette Tape Log (adapted from the donor's description):
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Curriculum vitae, transcribed interviews, audio recordings, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and biographical information comprise the series. Materials pertain chiefly to the careers and professional interests of three pivotal figures in the Health Center's early years, Dorsey, Geiger, and Hatch.
Materials are curriculum vitae, correspondence, notes, clippings, transcripts of interviews, and audio recordings of interviews. In the interviews, Dorsey discusses community organizing, racism, class tensions in Mound Bayou, Miss., poverty, employment, civil rights work and vision, and the election of President Barak Obama. Early material pertains to her pursuit of graduate education with corporate and foundation funding through the "Dorsey Project."
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"The Dorsey Project," 1970-1972Chiefly correspondence pertaining to the corporate and foundation funding of L.C. Dorsey's graduate education in social work at State University of New York (SUNY) Stony Brook. Corporate sponsors included Coca-Cola Company, General Mills, and H. Walter Thompson Company. In a 16 September 1971 memorandum to General Mills and Thompson executives, Milton Moskowitz writes, "I have just returned from a visit to Mrs. L.C. Dorsey, who is now installed with her six children in a three-bedroom house at Selden, L.I....L.C. is excited about the prospects for the coming year, as indeed she should be, since she has landed in an experimental program that meets her needs perfectly." Included are budgets for Dorsey's tuition, room, board, and other expenses. |
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"The Dorsey Project," 1972"Report of Activities Engaged in by Mrs. L.C. Dorsey While Attending The State University of New York at Stony Brook, New York. Submitted to the Black Women Community Development Foundation." |
Folder 280 |
"The Dorsey Project," 1973-1974Documents pertaining to Dorsey's enrollment in law school at the University of Mississippi. |
Folder 281 |
"The Dorsey Project," 2009Letters from Milton Moskowitz to Jack Geiger concerning the corporate financial support of L.C. Dorsey's graduate education. Also included is a letter from Jack Geiger to historian John Dittmer in which he discusses documents about Dorsey that he is sending to Dittmer. |
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L.C. Dorsey's resume, circa 1971
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Folder 283 |
"Dorsey selected as new director of the health center," circa 1987
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L.C. Dorsey's curriculum vitae, circa 2000
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L.C. Dorsey's curriculum vitae, circa 2001
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Biographical information on L.C. Dorsey, 2003
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"Mississippi Pays Tribute to Dr. L.C. Dorsey," 2013
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Notes on L.C. Dorsey, undated
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Transcript of interview with L.C. Dorsey, 1992Lightly annotated transcript of L.C. Dorsey's interview conducted by Robert Korstad for Duke University's Southern Rural Poverty Collection. "I grew up in the plantation system of the Mississippi Delta, and really for a long time I thought everybody was on plantations. I really didn't have a sense of poverty...everybody I knew...lived in the same conditions." |
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Transcript of interview with L.C. Dorsey, 11 December 2008Dorsey discusses the Community Health Center Movement in Mississippi, the white and black power structures in the Mississippi Delta, the local African American community's trepidation about the Tufts Delta Health Center, conflict between the Health Center and the local medical community, community organizing in the Mississippi Delta, the civil rights movement and Mississippi's racist power structure, the NAACP, John W. Hatch, Jack Geiger, her personal background, struggles and career, the need for national health insurance, and the election of President Barak Obama with interviewer Morissa G. Sobelsen of Tufts University. "There were people who were afraid to come to the health center, and that was part of what my job was about to spread information and let people know what was going on, and get people to come in and see for themselves, rather than to listen to the rumor mill....So at first what I got them to do was bring their children or bring old people from the families and communities and just talk to people to see how they were treated. And the way the health centrers had set up their encounters, how they treated people, careful to call people with courtesy titles, making sure they answered people's questions, making sure they talked slow, everybody talked about the fact that people from Boston talked fast." |
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L.C. Dorsey, 23 June 1992Audiocassette Tape Log (adapted from the donor's description):
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L.C. Dorsey, 23 June 1992Audiocassette Tape Log (adapted from the donor's description):
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Materials are transcripts of interviews, audio recordings of Geiger discussing the Health Center, correspondence, and documents pertaining to Geiger's involvement in the Medical Committee for Civil Rights and to honors he received including the naming of a public health program at George Washington University for him and Count D. Gibson. In interviews, topics addressed include genesis of the idea for the Health Center and the choice of Mound Bayou, Miss. for its location, Mississippi's medical community and its opposition to the Health Center, the Office of Economic Opportunity, environmental health, "the black struggle" and whites' role in that struggle, civil rights, racism, and community organizing.
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Medical Committee for Civil Rights, 1963Jack Geiger's application to the New York based organization. |
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Transcript of interview with Jack Geiger, 22 April 1992Geiger discusses his early life and background, work in South Africa, Mound Bayou, Miss., Tufts-Delta Health Center, community organizing, civil rights, socioeconomic conditions, and environmental health with interviewer Robert Korstad. "Health and health services can be a highly effective source of intervention for social change....The primary determinant of their [poor communities] health status is income and environment, physical, biological and social economic environments...The question, therefore, is instead of just standing in the revolving door grinding out clinical health services, is how to use health services to intervene in these other arenas. Number one, that means defining health services more broadly so that it includes environmental interventions, community organization, food, nutrition, water, and even more broadly education and training." |
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Partial transcript and tape log of interview with Jack Geiger interview, 28 March 2001Geiger discusses the early years of the Tufts-Delta Health Center, the community health center movement, the OEO, and the Medical Committee for Human Rights (MCHR). "One of the interesting things about the early years of the community health center movement is that there were a number of places in other parts of the country when community health centers started, that there was substantial resistance...St. Louis and other places I can think of, there was substantial resistance by black physicians, who saw this as an invasion of their turf and an economic threat." |
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Tribute to Jack Geiger, 2005Copy of a statement read by United States Senator Hillary Clinton for the Congressional Record. "He helped found and head the Physicians for Human Rights, a national organization of health professionals that investigates human rights abuses and war crimes and provides medical aid to victims of oppression. This organization shared in the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1998." |
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Correspondence, 2005-2009Includes a printout of an email message concerning the American Medical Association's 2008 apology to African American physicians for the association's racism. |
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Geiger Gibson Program in Community Health Policy, 2007Description of program at George Washington University's School of Public Health and Health Services. |
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Remarks at dedication of Delta Health Center to Dr. H. Jack Geiger, 2013Remarks delivered by Robert Smith, M.D. and executive director of Central Mississippi Health Services, Inc. |
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Transcript of interview with Jack Geiger, undated
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"Jack Geiger: History of the TCCHAP Project," undatedAudio recording. Processing information: Original open reel tape number: 5-03 (Please note the Library does not hold the original open reel tape.) Tape Log (adapted from the donor's description):
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"Jack Geiger," 2 May 1971Audio recording. Processing information: Original open reel tape number: 7-03 (Please note the Library does not hold the original open reel tape.) Tape Log (adapted from the donor's description):
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Materials are an interview transcript, an audio recording of Hatch speaking, biographical information, curriculum vitae, and annotated copies of documents from the Delta Health Center Records held at UNC Chapel Hill. Topics addressed in the transcribed interview and audio recording include his childhood in the American South, military service in the Korean War, the NAACP and his father's participation as a minister, northern migration of African Americans and the impact of migration on southern African Americans, community organizing, community representation and participation in health councils, identifying the community's priorities, and the Health Center.
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John W. Hatch, 1992 and undatedContains a 1992 curriculum vitae and an undated document titled "Related Preliminary Work of John W. Hatch." Includes notes, biographical information, and annotated documents from the Delta Health Center Records held at UNC Chapel Hill. |
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John W. Hatch, undatedIncludes notes, biographical information, and annotated documents from the Delta Health Center Records held at UNC Chapel Hill. |
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Transcript of interview with John W. Hatch, 1992Hatch discusses his childhood in Kentucky, Arkansas, and North Carolina, his father an African American pastor and member of the NAACP, black newspapers during the mid-twentieth century, his education, military service during the Korean War, social work and community organizing, and Tufts-Delta Health Center with interviewer Robert Korstad. |
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"John W. Hatch," undatedAudio recording. Processing information: Original open reel tape number: 5-02 (Please note the Library does not hold the original open reel tape.) Tape Log (adapted from the donor's description):
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Transcriptions and audio recordings of interviews with members of Mound Bayou's predominantly African American community served by the Health Center and with Health Center staff, including African American physicians, comprise the series.
Topics addressed by community members include sharecropping, mechanization of farming particularly in cotton harvesting, authoritarianism of the plantation owners, poverty, church, health and medical needs, home remedies, impact of poor health on economic security, healthcare and denial of medical care before the Health Center, environmental conditions and housing, participation in the civil rights movement and the cost of participating, racial discrimination, community organizing, volunteerism and giving back, and the economic impact of the Health Center. They also discuss the Farm Cooperative, the community center, employment with the Health Center, the small number of women in leadership roles at the Health Center, healthcare received, African American fraternal orders, African American community leaders, displacement of preachers and teachers as sole community leaders, "Uncle Toms," and local politics and the election of black leaders.
Major topics addressed in the interviews with Health Center staff include Mississippi's medical community and political structure, public health in the Mississippi Delta, sanitation, the Office of Economic Opportunity, malnutrition and food insecurity, birth control, leadership in the Health Center, Medicaid and Medicare, Medical Committee for Human Rights, Medical Committee for Civil Rights, clinical services, field nurses and nurse mid-wives, mental health in the community, the community health center movement, and community organizing.
Also included are a few interviews with local physicians not affiliated with the Health Center, an interview with the former white mayor of Mound Bayou, Miss., Earl Lucas, a recording of songs sung in a Baptist church in Symonds, Miss., and a recorded conversation John W. Hatch had with school children about public health and the impact of American and Caribbean slavery.
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Transcript of conversation between Jack Geiger and S. Bellin, 5 October 1966"History of TCCHAP Project, particularly Mississippi." Geiger discusses the work of the Medical Committee for Human Rights in Mississippi in 1964, OEO and Sargent Shriver, the medical community in the Mississippi Delta, public health in the Mississippi Delta, resistance to the development of a community health center, his colleague Count D. Gibson, and the Mississippi's political establishment. |
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Transcript of interview with Ann Haendel, 4 March 1976Haendel discusses the Office of Economic Opportunity, Sid Mauer, Jack Geiger, health centers, and community organizing with interviewer Peter K. New. |
Folder 306 |
Partial transcript of Civil Rights Conference, Virginia, 19 June 2002Discussion about the community health center movement, Mississippi, and civil rights today and in the past with Jack Geiger, John W. Hatch, and L.C. Dorsey. At the end of the conversation, Geiger said, "Most of the civil rights movement of the 60s and 70s was focused on the South, and did not get very far in the North. And the South provided such a glaring exception that it was relatively easier. We had some unprecedented events in a way. In Selma, 10,000 people got on planes, trains, and cars, spontaneously, no one organized it, to Selma in a kind of moral crisis and moral outrage. That doesn't happen with the kind of issues faced in the North." |
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"Mrs. Murray," undatedAudio recording. Processing information: Original open reel tape number: 5-06 (Please note the Library does not hold the original open reel tape.) Tape Log (adapted from the donor's description):
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"Mrs. Murray continued, Health Association Chair in Shelby," undatedAudio recording. Processing information: Original open reel tape number: 5-07 (Please note the Library does not hold the original open reel tape.) Tape Log (adapted from the donor's description):
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"Agnetta Soderberg," undatedAudio recording. Processing information: Original open reel tape number: 5-08 (Please note the Library does not hold the original open reel tape.) Tape Log (adapted from the donor's description):
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"Mrs. White," undatedAudio recording. Processing information: Original open reel tape number: 5-09 (Please note the Library does not hold the original open reel tape.) Tape Log (adapted from the donor's description):
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"Mrs. Young," undatedAudio recording. Processing information: Original open reel tape number: 5-10 (Please note the Library does not hold the original open reel tape.) Tape Log (adapted from the donor's description):
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Elnora Rich, undatedAudiocassette Tape Log (adapted from the donor's description):
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Willie Mae Osbourne, undatedAudiocassette Tape Log (adapted from the donor's description):
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Edward Scott, 21 September 1972Audiocassette Poor sound quality. Tape Log (adapted from the donor's description):
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Johnny Todd, 1972; Annie Mae Griffin, 11 July 1972Audiocassette Tape Log (adapted from the donor's description):
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Dave Caldwell, 25 September 1972 ; Jim Taylor, 4 September 1972Audiocassette Tape Log (adapted from the donor's description):
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Joseph Clemmons, 24 August 1972 ; Bella Sims, 3 September 1972Audiocassette Tape Log (adapted from the donor's description):
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Group including Ted Carter, 18 September 1967Audiocassette Tape Log (adapted from the donor's description):
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Mozella Gray, undated; Earl Pruitt, undatedAudiocassette Low volume recording. Tape Log (adapted from the donor's description):
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Jim Taylor, 4 September 1972Audiocassette Tape Log (adapted from the donor's description):
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Ed Haynes, 22 August 1972Audiocassette Tape Log (adapted from the donor's description):
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Robert Hollingsworth, undated; Earl Pruitt, undatedAudiocassette Tape Log (adapted from the donor's description):
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Audrey Moody, undated; Hermon Johnson, undatedAudiocassette Tape Log (adapted from the donor's description):
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John Perkins, 30 August 1972Audiocassette Significant background noise. Tape Log (adapted from the donor's description):
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Delaise Rich, undatedAudiocassette Poor quality recording. Tape Log (adapted from the donor's description):
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Joanna Roberts, 4 September 1972Audiocassette Tape Log (adapted from the donor's description):
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Joanna Roberts, September 1972 ; Jim Taylor, 4 September 1972Audiocassette Poor sound quality and significant background noise. Tape Log (adapted from the donor's description):
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J.A. Westerfield, 22 August 1972Audiocassette Tape Log (adapted from the donor's description):
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Lucinda Young and Lena Witherspoon, undatedAudiocassette Tape Log (adapted from the donor's description):
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Robert Hollingsworth, undatedAudiocassette Tape cuts out. Tape Log (adapted from the donor's description):
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Jim Taylor, 4 September 1972Audiocassette Poor sound quality and significant background noise. Tape Log (adapted from the donor's description):
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James Anderson, 15 June 1992Audiocassette Tape Log (adapted from the donor's description):
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John Brown, undatedAudiocassette Tape Log (adapted from the donor's description):
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Clara Mae Caldwell, 23 June 1992Audiocassette Tape Log (adapted from the donor's description):
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Bobbie Calhoun, 27 July 1992Audiocassette Tape Log (adapted from the donor's description):
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Jack Cartwright and Barbara Brooks, 22 June 1992Audiocassette Tape Log (adapted from the donor's description):
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Children, 17 July 1992Audiocassette Tape Log (adapted from the donor's description):
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William Crockett, 2 September 1992Audiocassette Tape Log (adapted from the donor's description):
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William Crockett, 31 July 1992Audiocassette Tape Log (adapted from the donor's description):
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Ethel Sheridan Dennis, 28 February 1992Audiocassette Tape Log (adapted from the donor's description):
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Will Finch, 29 January 1992Audiocassette Tape Log (adapted from the donor's description):
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Will Finch, 20 June 1992Audiocassette Tape Log (adapted from the donor's description):
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Mary Hampton, 20 February 1992Audiocassette Tape Log (adapted from the donor's description):
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John W. Hatch, 27 February 1992Audiocassette Tape Log (adapted from the donor's description):
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Maude Hemphill, 29 July 1992Audiocassette Tape Log (adapted from the donor's description):
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Aaron Henry, 6 July 1992Audiocassette Tape Log (adapted from the donor's description):
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Oneida Holmes, 26 June 1992Audiocassette Tape Log (adapted from the donor's description):
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Pauline Holmes, 24 February 1992Audiocassette Tape Log (adapted from the donor's description):
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Preston Holmes, 14 June 1992Audiocassette Tape Log (adapted from the donor's description):
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Hermon Johnson, 30 July 1992Audiocassette Tape Log (adapted from the donor's description):
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Ollie Bell Lewis, 5 July 1992Audiocassette Tape Log (adapted from the donor's description):
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Wesley Liddell, 14 July 1992Audiocassette Tape Log (adapted from the donor's description):
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Earl Lucas, 27 July 1992Audiocassette Tape Log (adapted from the donor's description):
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Olly Neal, 6 June 1992Audiocassette Tape Log (adapted from the donor's description):
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New Hope Baptist Church, 5 July 1992Audiocassette Tape Log (adapted from the donor's description):
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Essie Norwood and Murray Nelson, undatedAudiocassette Tape Log (adapted from the donor's description):
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Lizzie Scott and Cynthia Lewis Keith, 29 June 1992Audiocassette Tape Log (adapted from the donor's description):
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Aaron Shirley, 18 July 1992Audiocassette Tape Log (adapted from the donor's description):
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Robert Smith, 15 June 1992Audiocassette Tape Log (adapted from the donor's description):
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Alla Fair Turner, 8 July 1992Audiocassette Tape Log (adapted from the donor's description):
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H. Ward, undatedAudiocassette Tape Log (adapted from the donor's description):
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Irene Williams, 18 July 1992Audiocassette Tape Log (adapted from the donor's description):
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Viola Wilson, 7 July 1992Audiocassette Tape Log (adapted from the donor's description):
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Shelton Woodley, 26 June 1992Audiocassette Tape Log (adapted from the donor's description):
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Lucinda Young 1992Audiocassette Tape Log (adapted from the donor's description):
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Acquisitions information: Accession 103046
Materials in the addition are similar to those found in the original deposit.
Folder 307 |
Correspondence, 1967-1968
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Folder 308 |
Correspondence, 1969-1971
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Folder 309 |
Correspondence, 1992 and 2014
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Folder 310 |
Minutes of physicians' meeting, 30 August 1968
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Folder 311 |
Press releases and fact sheet, 1965
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Folder 312 |
"Health Profile of a Community," undated
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Folder 313 |
"The Tufts-Delta Health Center: A Progress Report," October 1968
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Folder 314 |
Health Center staff list, undated
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Folder 315 |
"U. of C. Student Walkout Sparks Move to End Race Discrimination," 8 December 1947Clipping from the Chicago Sun with Jack Geiger pictured. |
Folder 316 |
"Hunger and Sickness Afflict Mississippi Negro Children," 25 March 1968Clipping from the New York Times refers to the Tufts -Delta Health Center. Story by Richard D. Lyons. |
Folder 317 |
"Answers to Lyons' story," 1968
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Folder 318 |
Clippings, 1960s
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Folder 319 |
Clippings, 1960s
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Folder 320 |
Clippings, 1960s
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Folder 321 |
Clippings, 1970s
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Folder 322 |
Clippings, 1989 and undated
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Folder 323 |
Catalyst magazine of Boston SHO and MCHR, March 1969"Catalyst is the journal of the Boston Student Health Organization and Medical Committee for Human Rights. Its purpose is to encourage and facilitate communication within and between the two groups; to provide a medium for internal education (what we can teach each other) and external education (what others can teach us); and to encourage tie creativity that is all to [sic] often stifled in the health fields." |
Folder 324 |
"Health & Social Change: The Urban Crisis" by Jack Geiger, January 1968Lowell Lecture. |
Folder 325 |
Factor Affecting Community Health by Leonard L. Inge, 9 December 1970
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Folder 326 |
Untitled article, 17 November 1968"In April 1967, a Senate subcommittee on poverty went to Jackson, Mississippi for public hearings on the starvation issue. Some senators, taking it seriously and knowing it wasn't really 'an issue' at all but a crime, gave the extra push to travel 100 miles northwest to Bolivar County--the nation's third poorest and showplace for every misery-statistic in the bureaucrat's bureau." |
Folder 327 |
"Reap What You Sow," 2007"A doctor, mentor, and activist nurtures young minds destined for medicine." Article is signed by the subject of the piece, Bob Smith. |
Folder 328 |
"Caring for the Poor in the 21st Century: Enabling Community Health Centers for a New Era" by Kevin Fiscella and H. Jack Geiger, 2014
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Folder 329 |
"Organized Health Care and the Poor" by Donald L. Madison, undated
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Folder 330 |
"Community Control: A Study of Community Corporations and Neighborhood Boards" by Howard W. Hallman, 1969
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Folder 331 |
"The Bright Promise of Neighborhood Health Centers" by Judith Randal, 1968
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Folder 332 |
"Rural Health: OEO Launches Bold Mississippi Project," 1967
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Folder 333 |
"The People's Misery: Mother of Diseases" in Public Health Classics"An Address, Delivered in 1790 by Johann Peter Frank Translated from the Latin, with an Introduction by Henry E. Sigerist." |
Folder 334 |
"Social Medicine in South Africa in the Mid-Twentieth Century: The International Context" by Shula Marks, undated
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Folder 335 |
"South Africa's Early Experiment in Social Medicine: Its Pioneers and Politics" by Shula Marks, 1997
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Folder 336 |
"John Hatch on Community Organizing in the Mississippi Delta, 1965," undated
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Folder 337 |
"A Public Health Pioneer," 2016"H. Jack Geiger helped catalyze the community health centers movement." |
Digital Folder DF-05699/33 |
"Second HBHE Retrospective," 2008Video. Department of Health Behavior and Health Education (HBHE), University of North Carolina School of Public Health. |
Digital Folder DF-05699/34 |
"The Community Health Center Movement - An Oral History"Video.
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Acquisitions information: Accession 103349
Processing information: Title and description compiled from film leader and existing OCLC WorldCat record.
Out in the Rural: A Health Center in Mississippi is a short documentary film on the Delta Health Center and the Mound Bayou, Miss. community that it serves. Film student, Judy Schader Rogers, produced and directed the film in the fall of 1969 and winter of 1970 with support from Jack Geiger, the Delta Health Center staff, and the surrounding community. The film documents the broad vision of a community health center involved in far more than traditional medical diagnosis and treatment, as well as the faces, crops, and living conditions of the poor, African American, and rural community who lived in Mound Bayou, Miss. at the time. The collection contains a 16mm moving image copy of the film, as well as a digitized access copy made from the film print.
Film F-05699/1 |
Out in the Rural: A Health Center in Mississippi, 197016mm moving image film 650 ft. (20 minutes) positive ; color ; sound (optical) |
Digital Folder DF-05699/35 |
Out in the Rural: A Health Center in Mississippi, 19701 video file (.mp4) Digitized version of F-05699/1. |