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President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Poverty Bill (also known as the Economic Opportunity Act) while press and supporters of the bill looked on, August 20, 1964.. The war on poverty is the unofficial name for legislation first introduced by United States President Lyndon B. Johnson during his State of the Union Address on January 8, 1964.
On March 16, 1964, President Johnson called for the act in his Special Message to Congress that presented his proposal for a nationwide war on the sources of poverty. The Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 was passed as a part of LBJ's War on Poverty. Encompassing the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 was created "to ...
Senator Ted Kennedy presents Joseph P. Kennedy Award to President Johnson, 7 January 1964. January 8 – President Johnson delivers the 1964 State of the Union Address to a joint session of Congress. These remarks serve as the announcement of the legislation that will become known as the War on Poverty. [10]
The Johnson Doctrine, enunciated by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson after the United States' intervention in the Dominican Republic in 1965, declared that domestic revolution in the Western Hemisphere would no longer be a local matter when the object is the establishment of a "Communist dictatorship". [1]
In April 1964, Johnson proposed the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, which would create the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) to oversee local Community Action Agencies (CAA) charged with dispensing aid to those in poverty. [88] "Through a new Community Action program, we intend to strike at poverty at its source – in the streets of our ...
VISTA is an anti-poverty program created by Lyndon Johnson's Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 as the domestic version of the Peace Corps. [3] Initially, the program increased employment opportunities for conscientious people who felt they could contribute tangibly to the War on Poverty.
Only several weeks prior, the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibited discrimination in public places and banned employment discrimination, was signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson.
January 7, 1964 12 11139: Authorizing acceptance of the United Nations Medal and Service Ribbon January 7, 1964 13 11140 Delegating certain functions of the President relating to the Public Health Service January 30, 1964 14 11141 Declaring a public policy against discriminating on the basis of age February 12, 1964 15 11142