Initially a patient at the Delta Health Center, L.C. Dorsey went on to earn degrees in public health and become the Center's director.
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- 1992 Interview (with Jack Geiger and John Hatch) by Robert Korstad
Joint interview with L.C. Dorsey, Jack Geiger, and John Hatch. Below on the page are individual interviews with Jack Geiger and John Hatch. Interviews conducted by Robert Korstad and Neil Boothby for the Southern Rural Poverty Collection of the DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy.
- 1992 Interview by Robert Korstad
Interview with Robert Korstad and Neil Boothby for the Southern Rural Poverty Collection of the DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy. Web page includes brief biography and transcript (of the first half of the interview), at http://dewitt.sanford.duke.edu/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/DORSEY1.pdf Lower on the page are a joint interview of L.C. Dorsey, Jack Geiger, and John Hatch, followed by individual interviews of Jack Geiger and John Hatch.
- 2006 interview
Recorded October 26, 2006. Includes transcript.
- Community health center movement and the Delta Health Center
L.C. Dorsey joined the Delta Health Center in 1967 to direct its North Bolivar County Farm Cooperative. From 1988 to 1995, Dorsey served as the Executive Director for the Delta Health Center in Mound Bayou, Mississippi, providing complete family medical care and social services for widespread poor populations.