Papers, 1979.

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Smith, Robert. Papers, 1979.

Papers, 1979.

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Papers written by Smith, a Mississippi doctor and onetime secretary to the Board of Trustees of the Mississippi Medical and Surgical Association, concerning the role played by medical professionals in the civil rights movement, 1964-1977, and ways of solving rural health problems in Mississippi. A press release, distributed at the "Freedom Summer Revisited" conference on November 2, 1979, criticizes the conference for ignoring the role of doctors in the civil rights movement and describes the activities of the Tougaloo, Miss.-based Medical Committee on Human Rights, which gave rise to the Child Development Group (source of the "Head Start" programs) and the Comprehensive Community Health Center program. An essay, "Problems of the Working Poor," given at the Governor's Symposium on Rural Health Policy (June 28-29, 1977 in Jackson, Miss.), goes into more detail about health problems among the rural Mississippi poor and recommends steps to improve the situation without federal funding.

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Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project