Black History Month is an opportune time to reflect on the roots of the Community Health Center movement. Health centers sprang into existence more than five decades ago as part of a “ripple effect” from the Civil Rights Movement. A group of activists, among them medical students and doctors from the Medical Committee for Human Rights, descended upon rural Mississippi during what became known as Freedom Summer. In early 1965, the freedom marchers were brutally attacked on what became known as “Bloody Sunday” as they crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge on the road from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
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