The great society and the war on poverty: an economic legacy in essays and documents

List of entries

List of primary documents

Introduction

Entries : A-Z

Epilogue : great society at 50

Primary documents.

Entries : Affirmative action ; African American Civil Rights Movement ; Appalachian poverty ; Edward Banfield and The unheavenly city ; Beautification of the United States ; Birmingham Church bombing ; Black Panther Party ; William F. Buckley, Jr. ; Joseph A. Califono, Jr. ; Stokely Carmichael ; Rachel Carson and Silent spring ; Harry Caudill and Night comes to the Cumberlands: a biography of a depressed area ; César Chávez ; Chicano/Chicana Civil Rights Movement (El Movimiento) ; Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act of 1965 ; Civil Rights Act of 1964 ; Civil rights from the Great Society to the Obama Administration ; Clinton Administration and the "end of welfare as we know it" ; Coal and the persistence of poverty in Appalachia ; Wilbur Cohen ; Community Action Program ; Consumer Protection Movement ; Counterculture and the anti-war movement ; Culture of poverty ; Richard J. Daley ; Everett Dirksen ; Endangered Species Preservation Act of 1966 and Endangered Species Conservation Act of 1969 ; Environmental Movement ; Equal Pay Act of 1963 ; Food Stamp Act of 1964 ; John Kenneth Galbraith and The affluent society ; Barry Goldwater ; Richard Goodwin ; Great Society in Indian Country ; Edith Green ; Michael Harrington and The other America ; LaDonna Harris ; Tom Hayden ; Head Start and education reform ; Health care reform: from Medicare and Medicaid to the Affordable Care Act/Obamacare ; Higher Education Act of 1965 ; Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965 ; Immigration policy ; Jim Crow and the Great Society ; Lady Bird Johnson ; Lyndon B. Johnson ; Kennedy Administration and civil rights ; John F. Kennedy ; Martin Luther King, Jr. ; Legal services programs for the poor ; Malcolm X ; Thurgood Marshall ; Wilbur Mills ; Minimum wage ; Daniel Moynihan ; Ralph Nader and Unsafe at any speed ; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) ; Native American poverty ; Nixon Administration and the Great Society ; North Carolina Fund ; Office of Economic Opportunity ; Mollie Orshansky ; Carl Dewey Perkins ; Poor People's Campaign ; Presidential election of 1986 ; Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 ; Walter Reuther ; Ronald Reagan and the Great Society ; Sargent R. Shriver, Jr. ; Strom Thurmond ; Stewart Udall ; Urban race riots ; Vietnam War ; Voting Rights Act of 1965 ; George C. Wallace ; War on Poverty ; War on Poverty in Appalachia ; Clyde Warrior ; Waters of the United States ; Wholesome Meat Act of 1967 and Wholesome Poultry Products Act of 1968 ; Women's Movement.

Primary documents : President John F. Kennedy's speech to Congress on public welfare programs

George C. Wallace's first inaugural address as Governor of Alabama

President Lyndon Johnson's State of the Union address, 1964 ; The Council of Economic Advisers Economic Report of 1964 ; Poll Tax Amendment ; President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society speech at Ann Arbor, Michigan ; Civil Rights Act of 1964 ; President Lyndon Johnson's remarks following the signing of the Economic Opportunity Act ; The Negro family: the case for national action (also known as The Moynihan report) ; "Message from the President of the United States transmitting advancing the nation's health" by President Lyndon B. Johnson ; Transcript of letter from President Lyndon B. Johnson to the President of the Senate and to the Speaker of the House concerning stepping up the war on poverty ; President Lyndon B. Johnson's Special Message to Congress: "The American promise" ; President Lyndon Johnson's commencement address at Howard University: "To fulfill these rights ; Voting Rights Act of 1965 ; Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 ; Report of the National Advisory Commission on civil disorders (Kerner Commission) ; Economists' statement on guaranteed annual income ; President Richard M. Nixon's Special Message to Congress on the nation's antipoverty programs ; Resident Richard M. Nixon's statement announcing extension of welfare reform proposals ; President Ronald Reagan's radio address to the nation on welfare reform ; President Bill Clinton's statement on signing the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 ; United States Court of Appeals of the Fourth Circuit Opinion in North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP v. McCrory ; Supreme Court of the United States Syllabus, Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder, Attorney General, et al. ; President Barack Obama's remarks at the LBJ Presidential Library Civil Rights Summit ; Coal Country Protection Act ; "Remarks by the President at the 50th anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery Marches" by President Barack Obama.