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The Medical Committee for Human Rights pickets the American Medical Association meeting.

1968

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The picket comes after the American Medical Association (AMA) is slow to commit to the Civil Rights Act and to demand that its members adhere to its provisions. Afterwards, the AMA's House of Delegates empowers its Judicial Council to: “in the event of repeated violations [of anti-discrimination policies], recommend to the House of Delegates that the state association involved be declared to be no longer a constituent member of the American Medical Association" (Baker et al., 2008).