Telegram re: Results of Meeting with HEW

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Press Releases, Volume 3. Telegram re: Results of Meeting with HEW, 1965. c3546989-b692-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/593e4645-31ba-4c82-b39b-efaaa328841b/telegram-re-results-of-meeting-with-hew. Accessed May 13, 2025.

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DOMESTIC SERVICE INTERNATIONAL SERVICE
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: TELEGRAM sa a
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| | NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & ED. FUND, INC
Pd. Suite 2030, 10 Columbus Cireld, NYC

‘Serif the following message, subject to the terms on back hereof, which are hereby agreed to

(See attached list) December 14, 1965

Spokesmen from the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.,
the Medical Committee for Human Rights and the National Medical Association

ll discuss results of a Wednesday meeting with Department of Health,
Education and Welfare secretary John W, Gardner, at a press conference
Thursday morning, December 16th at the Executive. Room of the Hay-Adams House,
800 16th Street, N. W., Washington, D. C., at 10 AM, A detailed
memorandum, outlining discrimination trends and problems in some 2,000
southern hospitals and medical facilities,’ plus recommendations for
improvement, will be made available for working press.

Spokesmen are expected to discuss administration of Medicare funds,
HEW*s personnel and procedures for enforcing Title VI of the Civil Rights
Act, ch calls for withholding Federal Funds from Jim Crow facilities, and
the status of more than one hundred complaints of discrimination in
federally assisted hospitals filed this year by the Legai Defense Fund and--@_
the NAACP (separate organizations), and the medical organizations,

2 JESSE DEVORE, JR., DIRECTOR PUBLIC INFORMAT.
NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATIONAL FUND i
10 COLUMBUS CIRCLE, SUITE 2030, NYC fe
JU 6+8397

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[NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & ED. FUND
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(SEE ATTACHED WisT) ee December 14, 1965
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Dr, Hubert 4s Eaton of Wilmington, N.C., and Dr. W. T. Armstrong o

Rocky fount, N. Gey will be members of a delegation visiting Secretary

of Health, ices gpa regt John W. Gardner today (Dee. 15) to
c HEW* andling of medical programs.

cue celskatren represents the NAACP Legal Defense and Fdueational

Fund, Inc., the 3,000-member er coe tee for Muman Rights and the

OO-member National Medical Association.
eh The group is expected to discuss administration of Medicare funds,

HEW's personnel and procedures for enforcing Title VI of the Civil Rights

Act, which calls for withholding Federal funds from Jim Crow Agim

and the status of hundreds of complaints of discriminationin in federal y

assisted hospitals filed this year by the Legal Defense Fund and the

NAACP (separate organizations), and the medical opgenaye 03: 4

Representatives of the three or anizations will appear at a press

conference at 9:30 A.M. December 16 in the Executive Room of the HAY-

ADAMS. Hi GN, D. C.
Soe ip tadegea i JESSE DE VORE, JR., DIRECTOR PUBLIC

ON, NAACP LEGAL INF CRMATI DEFENSE FUND
10 Columbus Circle, Suite 2030, NYC

JU 6-8397

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