The Great Society & the Welfare State
Lectures in History
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Exposing Poverty in America: Night Comes to the Cumberlands & The Other America
This chapter explores the influential books that expose the challenges faced by impoverished Americans in the 1960s and their impact on the Kennedy and Johnson administrations' efforts for Appalachian redevelopment, as well as revealing hidden poverty and structural inequalities in American society.
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