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1 day ago · The “War on Poverty” led to the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, which funded community action agencies nationwide to support urban and rural communities facing high poverty rates. Milwaukee designated SDC as its community action agency.
5 days ago · Annual Message to the Congress on the State of the Union (January 8, 1964) Great Society speech (May 22, 1964) DPLA: Primary Source Set: Lyndon Johnson's Great Society
5 days ago · Over the next decade, the NNC and its offshoot, the Southern Negro Youth Congress, sought to coordinate and catalyze local antiracist activism into a national movement to undermine the Jim Crow system of racial and economic exploitation.
3 days ago · The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was intended to end discrimination based on race, color, religion, or national origin in the United States. The act gave federal law enforcement agencies the power to prevent racial discrimination in employment, voting, and the use of public facilities.
5 days ago · The Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 started the formation of SCCAP with a goal to combat poverty and other issues. Established on April 26, 1965, SCCAP was initially named the Adams County...
2 days ago · In April 1964, Johnson proposed the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, which would create the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) to oversee local Community Action Agencies (CAA) charged with dispensing aid to those in poverty. "Through a new Community Action program, we intend to strike at poverty at its source – in the streets of our cities ...
5 days ago · The Civil Rights Act of 1964 banned discrimination on the basis of race, ... and affirmed the right to equal opportunity, full participation, independent living and economic self-sufficiency.
