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Health Affairs, 28, no. 4 (2009): 1183-1188 doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.28.4.1183 © 2009 by Project HOPE	New Online   Getting Health Reform Done   After the State of the Union   Incremental Reform   E-Health in Developing World   Most-Read Articles in 2009

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Still Closing The Gap

Fitzhugh Mullan

THE STREET STRETCHED IN FRONT OF US, a hot macadam causeway leading to a brick school three blocks distant. Small groups of parents with children in neat shirts, shorts, and skirts walked purposefully toward the school. The kids were headed to their first day of school—a new school for all of them, the white school. The parents, laborers from the town or farmers from the nearby countryside, were black, proud, and scared. It was August 1965 in Durant, Mississippi, and history was unfolding. Prodded by the epic Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Mississippi countryside was integrating its . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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