Young--Medical Committee on Human Rights reports, 1964-1965, 1967, undated (Quentin Young papers, 1964-1975; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 880, Box 4, Folder 12)

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Young, Quentin

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This folder is particularly interesting for offering a medical view of incidents from Freedom Summer. Though the doctors' main concern was the health of COFO workers, many medical personnel also interviewed local African Americans, their physicians, and health facilities, and observed their living conditions. The reports paint a shocking picture of the lack of medical care for blacks, especially black women, almost half of whom gave birth at home "unattended" in Mississippi. Others report on segregated hospitals and clinics, the lack of trained medical personnel, the general lack of facilities, the inability to pay for services, the lack of knowledge about first aid, the scarcity of ambulances with oxygen, and the poverty and poor nutrition of the people. The medical side of police brutality is seen when doctors treat COFO workers for third degree burns inflicted by the Jackson police, for example, or insist on viewing the bodies of the three murdered civil rights workers, noting maj

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Young--Medical Committee on Human Rights reports, 1964-1965, 1967, undated (Quentin Young papers, 1964-1975; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 880, Box 4, Folder 12)

Young, Quentin

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