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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.

For more information:

Burrows, Vanessa and Barbara Berney. "Creating Equal Health Opportunity: How the Medical Civil Rights Movement and the Johnson Administration Desegregated U.S. Hospitals," Journal of American History, Volume 105, Issue 4, March 2019, Pages 885–911.

Dittmer, John. The Good Doctors. 2009 New York Bloomsbury Press.

Reynolds, PP. “The Federal Government’s Use of Title VI and Medicare to Racially Integrate Hospitals in the United States,” American Journal of Public Health, Nov. 1997, 87:1851-58.

"Power to Heal," BLB Film Productions, Ltd., PBS, 2015.