Saying Goodbye To The Kojo Nnamdi Show
On this last episode, we look back on 23 years of joyous, difficult and always informative conversation.
They were among the first Americans to believe “Heath Care is a Human Right.” We hear about the Medical Committee for Human Rights — a group of courageous doctors and nurses who helped care for demonstrators wounded in the Freedom Summer, the March on Selma, and the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
Guests
- John Dittmer Professor of History, DePauw University; and author of "The Good Doctors: The Medical Committee for Human Rights and the Struggle for Social Justice in Health Care" (Bloomsbury Press)
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