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In 1965, Dr. Stanley Rapoport went on an information-gathering trip to Bogalusa, Louisiana, to see if the Charity Hospital was integrating per the Hill-Burton Act. He met with representatives of the Congress of Racial Equality, stayed with members of the Deacons for the Defense and Justice, faced intimidation by the Ku Klux Klan, and was arrested. His visit became a training lesson for the NIH Public Health Service officers who followed the next year to enforce Medicare regulations on integration.

Dr. Norman Robbins, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke:

Dr. Norman Robbins visited Jackson, Mississippi in 1966 to see if hospitals in the area were integrating. He touches on the negotiating skills he learned before going, the varying attitudes of the medical community in the South toward integration, and the results of the trip. He witnessed the police beating marchers in Canton, Mississippi, and was threatened at gunpoint when he tried to help the injured.

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