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The Office of Economic Opportunity was the agency responsible for administering most of the War on Poverty programs created as part of United States President Lyndon B. Johnson 's Great Society legislative agenda. It was established in 1964 as an independent agency and renamed the Community Services Administration in 1975.
Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society. On a May morning in 1964, President Johnson laid out a sweeping vision for a package of domestic reforms known as the Great Society. Speaking before that year’s graduates of the University of Michigan, Johnson called for “an end to poverty and racial injustice” and challenged both the graduates and ...
Giving new opportunity to those who have little will enrich the lives of all the rest. Because it is right, because it is wise, and because, for the first time in our history, it is possible to couquer poverty, I submit, for the consideration of the Congress and the country, the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964•
Though Kennedy did not live to inaugurate the organization he envisioned, his successor, President Lyndon B. Johnson, incorporated the idea of a domestic volunteer organization into his far-reaching War on Poverty. When Johnson signed the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, VISTA was officially created.
The Economic Opportunity Act. President Johnson and Representative Phil Landrum of Georgia (the floor leader for the Economic Opportunity Act in the House of Representatives) discuss the attempt by a group of Catholic congressmen to block the Economic Opportunity Act in the House Education and Labor Committee. The Act would remain blocked ...
Jun 11, 2018 · It is the purpose of this Act to strengthen, supplement, and coordinate efforts in furtherance of that policy. C ongress adopted the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 (EOA) (P.L. 88-452, 78 Stat. 508) when President Lyndon Johnson was in office. In his first State of the Union message, President Johnson declared the EOA would launch the "war on ...
Aug 19, 2014 · When President Lyndon Johnson signed his “war on poverty” legislation 50 years ago on August 20, 1964, America had a different view of itself, of poverty, even a different political lexicon. The differences are especially vivid to those of us who have spent much of the intervening half century working to stem the tide of increased hunger ...
