War on Poverty 
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
2/7/2022
Adults Support Empowering Youth – Until Youth Dissent
by Dara Walker
American youth are seldom credited for having a clear understanding of the policies that affect their lives. COVID safety walkouts are the latest example of student activism to be dismissed.
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SOURCE: New York Times
6/2/2020
George Floyd’s Death Is a Failure of Generations of Leadership
by Elizabeth Hinton
To begin to dismantle the socioeconomic conditions that led to Mr. Floyd’s premature death, we can look to the principles of community representation and grass-roots empowerment that steered the early development of Johnson’s domestic program.
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SOURCE: African American Intellectual History Society
9/17/19
Revisiting the Poor People's Campaign and Its Legacy
by Bobby Cervantes
Sylvie Laurent’s new book about the Poor Peoples Campaign is not far removed from the political scene today.
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SOURCE: CNN
1-6-14
Why the "War on Poverty" Isn't Over
by Stephanie Coontz
And why it was actually a remarkable success.
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
1-9-14
Why Presidents Stopped Talking About Poverty
by Jeff Shesol
LBJ was the last president to talk about poverty in a substantive way.
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SOURCE: The New Republic
1-8-14
LBJ's Mistake Was Promising to "Win" the War on Poverty
by Jonathan Cohn
How to measure whether or not the "war on poverty" worked.
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SOURCE: TIME Magazine
1-8-14
Conservatives say War on Poverty failed
On 50th anniversary of LBJ speech.
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