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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.

Dr. Jesse Roth, National Institute of Arthritis, Diabetes, and Digestive and Kidney Diseases:

After facing discrimination when he grew up because he was Jewish, Dr. Jesse Roth volunteered to go to West Virginia to inspect hospitals for compliance with the Medicare Act. He discusses how they used scouts to get information about the hospitals, the relationship between rural hospitals and the Federal government, social activism at the NIH, and helping during the 1968 riots in Washington, D.C.

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