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Power to heal : Medicare and the civil rights revolution

2018

Format:	DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials
Title:	Power to heal : Medicare and the civil rights revolution / a film by Barbara Berney ; a co-production of BLB Productions, LLC and WETA Washington, D.C. ; produced by Barbara Berney, Roberta Friedman, Daniel Loewenthal ; directed by Charles Burnett & Daniel Loewenthal ; writer and contributing producer, Anna Reid Jhirad.
Publisher, Date:	Oley, PA : Bullfrog Films, [2018] ©2018
Description:	1 videodisc (56 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in. 4 3/4 in. burning digital optical NTSC video file DVD video
Summary:	"Power To Heal tells a poignant chapter in the historic struggle to secure equal and adequate access to healthcare for all Americans. Central to the story is the tale of how a new national program, Medicare, was used to mount a dramatic, coordinated effort that desegregated thousands of hospitals across the country in a matter of months ... [The film] illustrates how Movement leaders and grass-roots volunteers pressed and worked with the federal government to achieve justice and fairness for African-Americans"--From container.
Subjects:	Medicare -- History. Civil rights -- United States -- History. Discrimination in medical care -- United States -- History -- 20th century. Health care reform -- United States -- History -- 20th century. Health services accessibility -- United States -- History -- 20th century. Minorities -- Medical care -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Genre:	Documentary films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Other Author:	Glover, Danny, narrator. Berney, Barbara (Barbara L.), filmmaker, film producer Burnett, Charles, 1944- film director. Friedman, Roberta, film producer. Loewenthal, Daniel, film producer, film director, editor of moving image work Reid-Jhirad, Anna, screenwriter, film producer. Taylor, Stephen James, composer (expression) BLB Film Productions, production company. WETA-TV (Television station : Washington, D.C.), production company. Bullfrog Films, presenter, publisher.
Notes:	Wide screen. Additional writing, Martin Dornbaum, Leslie Clark, David Barton Smith ; edited by Daniel Loewenthal ; co-editor, Michele Zarbafian ; music by Stephen James Taylor. Narrated by Danny Glover. Disc characteristics: DVD-R. In English; with optional subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).
Contents:	Introduction and credits -- Hidden history of medical segregation -- Separate and never equal : segregation kills -- Segregation in the North -- Hill-Burton Act expands and subsidizes segregation -- Institutional racism limits training and practice -- Challenge segregation after WWII -- Dr. Simkins sues to end separate but equal -- Passing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 -- Health professionals document discrimination during Freedom Summer -- The fight for Medicare -- HEW becomes a civil rights enforcement agency -- HEW begins the push to integrate hospitals -- Inspecting the hospitals to insure desegregation -- One month left : showdown over compliance -- Victory : integration and aftermath -- Credits.
ISBN:	1948745143 9781948745147 1948745143 9781948745147
Other Number:	1077480727
System Availability:	1
Current Holds:	0
# Local items:	1
Control Number:	764651
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Call Number:	DVD 368.42 Power to

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