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Interview: June Finer
Among the relatively small number of women professionals was physician June Finer. She went south as part of the Medical Committee for Human Rights (MCHR) work in the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project. She was one of approximately one of one hundred physicians, nurses, and psychologists MCHR sent out in teams to Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) centers. As the Selma movement was heating up, Dr. June Finer arrived as a paid southern coordinator for the MCHR, setting up MCHR-funded offices. Primarily, Finer focused on emergency medical needs that arose during demonstrations, dispatching incoming medical teams from the North to places where they were most needed. We were always on standby for demonstrations. We wore red cross symbols-a white armband with a little red cross to identify us. It was felt that our presence at demonstrations was of some importance although in fact there's not much you could do [for tear gas]. During the larger demonstrations, when people were jailed, Finer and her colleagues would: go to the jail and demand to see them, thinking this might perhaps prevent them from being beaten up because a medical person had viewed them at some point. If subsequently they appeared to be damaged in any way, one could make a testimony about that.
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