1964

Passage of Civil Rights Act, which brought integration to all southern hospitals; among the casualties were the South’s all-black hospitals, none of which qualified for Hill-Burton funding (Ward, 188-190). Still, by 1965, only one county medical society in Louisiana and two in Mississippi had admitted black physicians. In Georgia, 68 of 78 county societies refused memberships to black physicians; and only four of Alabama’s 70 local societies had black members (210).