Telegram re: Delegation Who Will Discuss HEW's Administration and Medical Programs
Press Release
December 14, 1965

Cite this item
-
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.
Copied!
J_DOMESTIC SERVICE Z INTERNATIONAL SERVICE i WESTERN UNION [Fis2* FULL RATE DAY LETTER JE TELEGRAM =" [Ino wos.-ct. of sve. | PD oRicou. | GASH_NO. i CHARGE 10 THE ACCOUNT OF [ TIME FILED ue | Pd. | INAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & ED. FUND,| INC ‘Send the following message, subject to the terms on back hereof, which are Mer F Soy +8 Gobunbus GE + ? BE § (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. ce) Representatives of the ¢hree organiza conference at 9:30 AM HAY*ADAMS HOUSE, WASHINGT Ms D.C. I\ : 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 JU 6+8397