For All the People: A Century of Citizen Action in Health Care Reform

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4. Clinical lab at Delta Health Center, 1970

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Clinical lab at Delta Health Center, Jackson, MS, 1970

Courtesy Daniel Bernstein/Jack Geiger

Shocked at the poor health conditions in the South, physicians from the Medical Committee for Human Rights helped local residents in rural Mississippi open the Delta Health Center, one of the first community-controlled health clinics in the nation.