Only a minority of the U.S.'s 6,000 Negro physicians are members of the all-powerful American Medical Association, and the traditional role of their own National Medical Association (4,000 members) has been to fight for racial equality in medicine. It has had little A.M.A. sympathy or support in its efforts to get more Negroes into more medical schools, to get Negro physicians accepted in white dominated county medical societies, and to win them the privilege of treating their patients in general hospitals.
But in Manhattan last week, at the N.M.A.'s 66th annual convention, A.M.A....
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