Tommie Phillips – The Student Health Coalition Archive Project

Rick Davidson on connecting with local communities through music

Leave a Comment / Stories, Theme: Organizing, Theme: Organizing - Stories / By Biff Hollingsworth

Richard Davidson M.D., M.P.H., talks about how music allowed him to connect with members of the communities he served as the first physician for Mountain People’s Health Councils (MPHC), a consortium of health clinics originally formed by the communities of Norma (Scott County), Petros (Morgan County), and Stoney Fork (Campbell County), Tennessee. Each clinic grew …

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The role of music in the Student Health Coalition

2 Comments / Stories / By Biff Hollingsworth

Here’s the link to a wonderful video clip, edited by Rick Davidson, that describes the connections between young student activists and local musicians in East Tennessee.

Joe Little

Leave a Comment / People, Student Health Coalition Participants / By Biff Hollingsworth

Contributed by Joe Little, February 2016 As with a growing number of past experiences, my recall is opaque and often self-serving. I don’t exactly remember how I was lured into the first summer of work in 1971 in East Tennessee. But I signed on as a medical staffer, went through training (in the basement of …

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