Up one levelFrom 1992-1994, Professors Robert Korstad and Neil Boothby interviewed more than 30 of the leading figures of the post civil rights era. The interviews resided in the Southern Rural Poverty Collection of the DeWitt Wallace Center for Media & Democracy, in the Duke University Sanford School of Public Health Policy. Korstad and Boothby focused on issues of poverty and inequality in the rural South. The unedited interviews document the first-hand experiences of these individuals and their communities living with pervasive poverty in the South, and their individual efforts to help their communities. In recent years the recordings have been moved to the YouTube platform and asof June 2024 can be found at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTzeizLu0ItJS4CP2bVb1aa5bVoCXa1LD
This interview features L.C. Dorsey, Jack Geiger and John Hatch, speaking together. All three are public health experts, and helped establish and lead the nation&apost;s first rural community health center at Mound Bayou, Mississippi.
Oral history interview, 4/23/1992 in YouTube [original location]
John W. Hatch is a professor in the department of health behavior and health education in the School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. As an assistant professor at Tufts University School of Medicine in the 1960s, Hatch helped organize the Delta Health Center, Inc. of Mound Bayou, Mississippi. In response to widespread malnutrition in the region, Hatch initiated and directed an adjunct of the center, the North Bolivar County Farm Cooperative.
Rutherford Living History - John Hatch. Oral history interview, 4/23/1992 in YouTube Transcript of the recorded interview [not found on 4/26/2022]
L.C. Dorsey was originally a patient at the Delta Health Center and eventually became its director.
Rutherford Living History - L.C. Dorsey. Oral history interview, 4/23/1992 in YouTube