Telegram re: Delegation Who Will Discuss HEW's Administration and Medical Programs

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December 14, 1965

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  • Press Releases, Volume 3. Telegram re: Delegation Who Will Discuss HEW's Administration and Medical Programs, 1965. 65546989-b692-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/43ce407b-10af-4789-a8b8-febdc2690035/telegram-re-delegation-who-will-discuss-hews-administration-and-medical-programs. Accessed October 08, 2025.

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§ (SEE ATTACHED LIST) December 14, 1965 

t Dr. Alvin E. Poussaint of Jacksony Miss., will be part of a delegation 

‘ visiting Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Secretary John WwW, 

Gardner today Dec. 15) to discuss HEW's administration of medical programs. 

4 The delegation represents the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational 

Fund, Ince, the 3,000-member Medical Committee for Human Rights and 

he 5,000-member National Medical Association. 

the group is expected to discuss administration of Medicare funds, 

HEW's personnel and procedures #0: i 

ghts Act, which ca 1s for wit! 

facilities, and the status of hundreds of complaints of discrimination 

n federally assisted hospitals filed this. year by the Legal Defense 

x enforcing Title VI of the ¥ Civil 

olding Federal funds from Jim Crow 

Fund and the NAACP (s ate seganizetions) and the medical organizations. 

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Representatives of the ¢hree organiza 

conference at 9:30 AM 

HAY*ADAMS HOUSE, WASHINGT Ms D.C. 

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: ns will appear at a press 

Thursday December 16 in the Executive Room of the 

‘)\ ESSE DEVORE, JR.» DIRECTOR, 
/\ Public Information, NAACP Legal Defense Fund 

Suite 2030, 10 Columbus Circle, NYC 5 

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