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 December 05, 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
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