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By John Dittmer
324 pp, $30
New York, NY, Bloomsbury Press, 2009
ISBN-13: 978-1-5969-1567-6

JAMA. 2009;302(6):692-693.

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In the 1960s, racial discrimination was at an all-time high in the South. African Americans were refused the right to vote, the right to health care, and the right to organize to end these practices. African American physicians were denied privileges in local hospitals, and most hospitals were segregated, offering separate and inferior health care to African American patients. During that time, attempts to vote, to integrate segregated areas, or to be involved in civil rights activities were met with violence. Civil rights workers from across the country who went south to assist with community organizing and voter registration were not welcomed by those who favored the status quo, and at times they too faced violence. Racial tensions in the South peaked in the summer of 1964, after the murders of 3 civil rights workers in Mississippi. Because of the paucity of sympathetic and willing physicians, civil rights organizers in . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Lynn C. Smitherman, MD, Reviewer
Department of Pediatrics
Wayne State University
Division of Ambulatory Pediatrics
Children's Hospital of Michigan
Detroit
lsmither@med.wayne.edu

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