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Date Posted: 18:08:40 03/25/03 Tue
Author: cassie
Subject: 2 Ch31 sections

The Assault on Poverty
-1960s new social welfare programs
*Medicaid/Medicare
-federal aid to elderly for medical expenses
-made large middle class constituency for the program
-office of Economic Opportunity created education,employment,housing & health-care programs
-"community action" involve members of poor communities
*Community Action Program
-gave poor people jobs
-experience in administrative/political work
-helped reduce poverty
-later yrs. lost funding b/c war in S.E. Asia

Expanding Protest
-JFK won blacks votes
-by freeing MLK Jr. from a Georgia prison
-JFK made modest progress w/ desegeration
*SNCC
-student nonviolent coordinating committee
-worked to keep spirt of resitence alive
*"Freedom Riders"
-by congress od radical equality
-wanted desegeration of bus systems
-meet savage violence from whites
-SNCC wanted a vote to declare Jim Crwo laws unequal
-SCLC created citizen-education programs
-1962 federal court ordered Univ. Mississippi enroll blacks
*Brimingham
-MLK Jr./non-violent protests
-police comissioner watched brutal break up of peaceful marchers
-used teargas,attack dogs,electric cattle prods,& fire hoses
-this was teleivised

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