"Of the Poor, By the Poor, or For the Poor": Community Health Centers and the War on Poverty

In early 1965, Dr. Jack Geiger, a physician with a history of civil rights activism, approached officials in the newly-created Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) and proposed a plan to create a community health center in the South. The OEO, which had been charged with directing President Johnsonâs...

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Main Author: O'Reilly, Kelly Rose
Other Authors: Theodore Brown
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: VANDERBILT 2017
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Online Access:http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/available/etd-08272017-191248/