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- Creator
- Medical Committee for Human Rights (U.S.)
- Call number
- Sc MG 151
- Physical description
- 1 linear foot
- Preferred Citation
- Medical Committee for Human Rights (U.S.) records, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library
- Repository
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division
- Access to materials
- Some collections held by the Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture are held off-site and must be requested in advance. Please check the collection records in the NYPL's online catalog for detailed location information. To request access to materials in the Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, please visit: http://archives.nypl.org/scm/request_access Request access to this collection.
Purpose of organization was to recruit health care personnel and supplies for civil rights workers who participated in the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project and for local black residents. Records related to the Committee's activities including administrative and general correspondence, some reports, memoranda, minutes, financial records, membership and fund raising files, committee files, material from chapters, and printed literature.
Key terms
Names
Subjects
- African Americans -- Civil rights
- African Americans -- Medical care
- African Americans -- Mississippi
- Civil rights -- Mississippi
- Civil rights workers -- Mississippi
- Discrimination in medical care
- Fund raising
- Human rights -- Health aspects
- Physicians -- Political activities -- United States
Places
Using the collection
Location
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division515 Malcolm X Boulevard, New York, NY 10037-1801
Second Floor