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February 2002, Vol 92, No. 2 | American Journal of Public Health 195
© 2002 American Public Health Association

IMAGES OF HEALTH

The March on Washington, 1963

Elizabeth Fee, Theodore M. Brown, Walter J. Lear, Jan Lazarus and Paul Theerman

Elizabeth Fee is with the History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md. Theodore M. Brown is with the Departments of History and of Community and Preventive Medicine at the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Elizabeth Fee, PhD, Building 38, Room 1E21, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894 (e-mail: elizabeth_fee@nlm.nih.gov).


   INTRODUCTION
 
HUNDREDS OF DOCTORS, dentists, nurses, social workers, and other health professionals formed the medical contingent of the August 28, 1963, March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Many were inspired by this historic civil rights experience—particularly by the now famous "I have a dream" speech by the Rev Martin Luther King, Jr—to join demonstrations and other efforts to eliminate racism in the health field, first in the US South and then throughout the nation. This photograph was taken for the American Journal of Nursing and is in the Medical Committee for Human Rights Archive of the US Health Activism History . . . [Full Text]


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