Center on Poverty, Work, & Opportunity
Topic: America’s War on Poverty
Components
• PowerPoint
• Terms & Concepts
• Documents and Readings
• Suggested Resources
o Websites (Interactive/Links)
o Video Clips
o Books & Films
Terms & Concepts
Child Nutrition Act of 1966
College Work Study Program (1964)
College Work Study Program (1965)
Community Action Programs (CAP) of
1965
Economic Opportunity Act of 1964
Elementary/Secondary Act of 1965
Food Stamp Act of 1964
Great Society
Higher Education Act of 1965
Indian Reservation Programs
Job Corps
Legal Services (1965)
Lyndon Johnson
Manpower Act of 1965
Medicaid
Medicare
Michael Harrington
Migrant Assistance
Minimum Wage Bill of 1966
National School Lunch Act of 1968
North Carolina Fund
Office of Economic Opportunity
Project Head Start (1965)
Revenue Act of 1964
Sargent Shriver
School Breakfast Program
Social Security Act of 1965
Special Milk Program
Terry Sanford
The Neighborhood Youth Corp (1964)
The Other America
Upward Bound (1965)
VISTA
War on Poverty
Work Experience Program (1964)
Documents/Readings:
• Johnson’s Inaugural Address (University of Texas):
http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/archives.hom/speeches.hom/640108.asp
• Retrospective on Johnson’s Poverty War (Ludwig von Mises Institute):
http://mises.org/daily/1126
• Did the United States Lose the War on Poverty? (Digital History Textbook):
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/topic_display.cfm?tcid=111
• Leadership and Politics in the War on Poverty: The Case of the North Carolina Fund
(James LeLoudis):
http://sogpubs.unc.edu/electronicversions/pg/pgspsm03/article1.pdf
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American President: Lyndon Baines Johnson (University of Virginia)
http://millercenter.org/academic/americanpresident/lbjohnson/essays/biography/
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President Johnson Official Biography (White House):
http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/lyndonbjohnson
Websites/Links
• LBJ for Kids (University of Texas):
http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/lbjforkids/poverty.shtm
• Johnson Library and Museum: http://www.lbjlibrary.org/
• To Right These Wrongs – The North Carolina Fund and the Battle to End Poverty
and Inequality in 1960s America: http://www.torightthesewrongs.com/
Video Clips
• “War on Poverty” Johnson Political Campaign Ad (1964):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gluX03psG5Y
• 1964 State of the Union Address (clip):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfT03Ihtlds
• The Great Society in 15 Minutes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21S_2jyvvTc
• New Source of Hope for the People of Poverty (NC Fund):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1qGOJRXfps
• Truth and Hope: The Challenge to Address Poverty in Our Communities (Scenes
from the Truth and Hope Poverty Tour across North Carolina in 2012):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Yam5D8aODE
• Doris Kearns Goodwin on learning from past presidents:
http://www.ted.com/talks/doris_kearns_goodwin_on_learning_from_past_preside
nts.html?quote=360
Suggested/Selected Resources: Books & Films
• To Right These Wrongs (Robert Korstad and James Leloudis)
• The War on Poverty: A New Grassroots History, 1964-1980 (Lisa Gayle Hazirjian)
• Launching the War on Poverty: An Oral History (Michael L. Gillette)
• The Color of Welfare: How Racism Undermined the War on Poverty (Jill S.
Quadagno)
• Appalachian Legacy: Economic Opportunity after the War on Poverty (James P
Ziliak)
• Changes Comes Knocking: The Story of the North Carolina Fund (Film)
• America’s War on Poverty (TV Mini-Series)