LibGuides: Primary Sources: The 1960s: War on Poverty & Great Society

Online Sources: War on Poverty & Great Society

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
President Johnson's 1964 State of the Union address, 1/8/64. (video)
Remarks Upon Signing the Economic Opportunity Act (August 20, 1964)
Remarks Upon Signing the Economic Opportunity Act (August 20, 1964)
The War on Poverty: A Civilian Perspective
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Edgar S. Cahn and Jean C. Cahn
The Yale Law Journal
Vol. 73, No. 8 (Jul., 1964), pp. 1317-1352
Appalachia: War On Poverty Oral History Project
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"This project documents the War on Poverty in the Appalachian Region of Kentucky. Topics discussed include the Appalachian Volunteers, Head Start programs, the Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA), the Community Action Program, conflicts between natives and "outsiders", charges that volunteers were spreading communism, the Pike County Sedition Case, and the founding of the Appalachian Research and Defense Fund."
War on Poverty speech

Related Legislation

Civil Rights Act 1964
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Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan Development Act of 1966
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Department of Housing and Urban Development Act - 1965
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Economic Opportunity Act of 1964
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Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965
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Fair Packaging and Labeling Act - 1966
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Food Stamp Act of 1964 [aka Food Stamp Act of 1977]
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Higher Education Act of 1965
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Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965
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Medicare and Medicaid Act (1965) [Social Security Amendments of 1965]
Social Security Amendments of 1965
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Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964 [aka Federal Transit Act]
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Voting Rights Act 1965
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Wilderness Act - 1964
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An Act: To establish a National Wilderness Preservation System for the permanent good of the whole people, and for other purposes. (1964)

Book Sources: War on Poverty & Great Society

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America in the Sixties by Peter B. Levy
Call Number: E841 .A47 1998
ISBN: 0275955168
Right, Left, and Center: A Documentary History
Conflicts in American History: A Documentary Encyclopedia by Each volume has a different editor.
Call Number: E174 .C655 2010
ISBN: 0816070938
Defining Documents in American History: The 1960s (1960-1969) [ebook] by Michael Shally-Jensen, PhD. (editor)
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Call Number: Online - Salem Press
ISBN: 1619258889
See - LBJ: "The Great Society"
Defining Documents in American History: The 1960s (1960-1969) [print] by Michael Shally-Jensen, PhD., editor
Call Number: E841 .A19 2016
ISBN: 1619258889
See - LBJ: "The Great Society"
The Democratic Party: Documents Decoded by Douglas B. Harris; Lonce H. Bailey
Call Number: JK2316 .H37 2014
ISBN: 1610696433
See - The great society, Lyndon B. Johnson's speech at the University of Michigan, May 22, 1964
Frank: A Life in Politics from the Great Society to Same-Sex Marriage by Barney Frank
Call Number: E840.8.F72 A3 2015
ISBN: 0374280304
"The candid political memoir of Barney Frank, former House Representative from Massachusetts (Democrat) and a pioneering, openly gay politician"-- Provided by publisher.
The Great Society and the War on Poverty by John R. Burch
ISBN: 1440833877
: An Economic Legacy in Essays and Documents
Launching the War on Poverty: An Oral History by Michael L. Gillette
Call Number: HC110.P63 G54 2010
ISBN: 0195387279
The Presidential Recordings, Lyndon B. Johnson by Ernest May and Timothy Naftali
Call Number: E846 .L945 2005
ISBN: 0393060012
Social Policy: Essential Primary Sources by K. Lee Lerner et al.
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Call Number: Online - GVRL
ISBN: 9781414403281
Social Security: A Documentary History by Larry W. DeWitt et al.
Call Number: HD7125 .D495 2008
ISBN: 0872895025
Welfare in the United States by Premilla Nadasen, et al.
Call Number: HV699 .N233 2009
ISBN: 0415989795
A History with Documents, 1935-1996

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