April 1st, 2013 - March 31st, 2015 | PROJECT
THE POWER TO HEAL (working title) is a 90-minute documentary on the dramatic yet largely untold story of how American hospitals were desegregated in the mid-1960s. With the active help of the civil rights movement and using Medicare as the lever, the U.S. government successfully desegregated thousands of hospitals in just a few months. Through eyewitness narratives, historians, scholars, photos, films and other period materials, we follow inspectors into the field, black and white doctors and nurses providing care and filing discrimination complaints, and senior federal officials charged with carrying out LBJ’s explicit policies. The film honors the 50th anniversaries of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the 1965 legislation creating Medicare, and draws on significant humanities perspectives in American, civil rights, and health care history with particular focus on the legacy of Lyndon Johnson and the work still being done to achieve equality in health care.
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Team Members
Barbara Berney, Principal Investigator, Fractured Atlas Productions, Inc.Funders
Funding Source: NEH
Award Number: TR-50424-13
Funding Amount: 350000
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Audience: General Public | Museum | ISE Professionals
Discipline: Health and medicine | History | policy | law | Social science and psychology
Resource Type: Project Descriptions
Environment Type: Broadcast Media | Media and Technology