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MLK&LBJWaronPoverty

January 15, 2020 by Meshry

In Jan 8th, 1964 Lyndon B. Johnson us his State of the Union to declare “unconditional war” on Poverty in the United States, especially Appalachia (before the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution that August foreshadowed a larger War in Vietnam). Many Credit JFK’s reading socialist Michael Harrington’s book The Other America for drawing attention to persistent poverty in an otherwise booming post-WWII economy (with other Industrial economies debilitated by war and cheap oil form Iran America

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