Medical Committee for Human Rights (U.S.) records

1964-1966

The Medical Committee for Human Rights (MCHR) was created at the request of the Council of Freedom Organizations (COFO), which supervised the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)'s Mississippi Summer Project during the summer of 1964. The purpose of the organization was to recruit health care personnel and supplies for civil rights workers who participated in the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project and local Black residents. MCHR had its national office in New York City; it was governed by an executive board and executive director. There were also chapters in various cities around the country. The Medical Committee for Human Rights records are mostly related to the Committee's activities during the summer of 1964, with some records for the summers of 1965-1966. The records consist of administrative and general correspondence, some reports, memoranda, minutes, financial records, membership and fund raising files, committee files, material from chapters, and printed literature.