Interview, 1966.

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Interview, 1966.

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Photocopy of a transcript of a 1966 conversation between Dr. Seymour Bellin and Dr. H. Jack Geiger, founder of the Tufts-Delta Health Center, an experimental medical center in Bolivar County, Mississippi, whose purposes included improved medical care and social and economic change, concerning the history of the center.

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Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Bellin, Seymour S.

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Geiger, Jack, 1925-

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Tufts-Delta Health Center (Mound Bayou, Miss.)

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The Delta Health Center was established in the mid-1960s, in the rural, all-African American town of Mound Bayou, Bolivar County, Miss., and served Bolivar, Coahoma, Sunflower, and Washington counties, where poverty was widespread. The Center, which was federally funded through Tufts University and later through the State University of New York at Stony Brook, was one of the first community health centers in the United States. The comprehensive community health center model aimed at building upo...