Abstract: Few people know about the health-specific activism that emerged out of the civil rights, U.S. third-world left, New Left, women's, labor, environmental, disability-rights, and decarceration movements. Collectively these people's movements for health aimed to undo coercive, paternalistic, racist and exploitative relations in medicine and simultaneously implicated these power relations throughout society for creating the very conditions for (healthy) living. As such, body politics and creating the conditions for living and bodily self-determination---what we might call health---became important, if not central, aspects of the meaning of liberation that emerged at this time. Health care became popularly recognized as a human right, even if not yet realized. The public found a voice in health care policy and won rights in doctor-patient relations, while people of color and women in particular struggled to make bodily autonomy a central political issue. I focus on three strands of this popular movement and subsequent counter-revolution in Los Angeles: the civil rights, U.S. third-world left, and women's movements. The 'equal justice in health care' movement advanced the radically leveling proposition that racist inequities in the institution of medicine should be demolished, and that care should be available on the basis of medical need and not race or the ability-to-pay. Access and quality of care were inseparable demands that led to the development of community control of neighborhood health centers. As the civil rights movement opened its Northern front, political strategies changed and anti-racist revolutionary nationalist groups took the lead by establishing 'serve the people' and survival programs to cope with conditions of urban segregation and poverty, including police brutality, hunger, and drugs. Women struggled for bodily autonomy by seeking to decriminalize abortion and prevent forced sterilization, while women active in what I call the 'mothering underground' aimed to create the possibilities for raising healthy children and communities through their anti-war and welfare rights work. Finally, after W. E. B. DuBois, I argue that a counter-revolution of property was none other than a revanchist program of racialized austerity, and that the broad connections between the body politic and individual bodies were depoliticized and incorporated into the 'health care' industry through a turn to individualized lifestyle.