Hungry in the Mississippi Delta
Podcast |
Gravy
Media Type |
audio
Categories Via RSS |
Arts
Food
Society & Culture
Publication Date |
Mar 08, 2018
Episode Duration |
00:37:41

While civil rights activists worked in Mississippi in 1964, they encountered a poverty they could never have imagined. People were hungry, starving to death from malnutrition, particularly in the Mississippi Delta.

Doctors and medical professionals, including Dr. Jack Geiger, joined together to form the Medical Committee for Human Rights. Geiger founded a community health center in Mound Bayou, Mississippi where he and his medical team wrote prescriptions for food, started a farm cooperative, taught nutrition classes, and ultimately reduced hunger in the region.

This episode was produced by Sarah Reynolds.

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