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The impetus for formation of the committee was a rising concern about hunger and malnutrition in the United States. It had been brought to public attention by the 1967 field trip of Senators Robert F. Kennedy and Joseph S. Clark to see emaciated children in Cleveland, Mississippi, [1] by the 1967 broadcast of the CBS News special Hunger in America, [2] and by the 1968 publication of Citizens ...
[66] [67] Other suffragists pointed out that it was short-sighted of Georgia to reject women's suffrage. [68] Anti-suffragist Mildred Rutherford was the only one to speak against women's suffrage. [68] By July 7, members of the House tried to table Jackson's rejection bill and the bill in Senate faced the same fate later in the month. [69]
In January 1964, President Johnson gave Sargent Shriver the task of developing a bill to wage the war against poverty in the United States. The bill was presented to Congress in March, 1964. It was introduced in the House by Representative Phil M. Landrum, (D Georgia), and in the Senate by Senator Pat McNamara, (D Michigan). In the Senate, the ...
Georgia's independent Special Investigations Service, which investigates allegations made against officials says it has launched an investigation into possible abuse of power in Amaghlobeli's case ...
Georgia was the first state to reject the Nineteenth Amendment. Women in Georgia still had to wait to vote statewide after the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified on August 26, 1920. Native American and African American women had to wait even longer to vote. Georgia ratified the Nineteenth Amendment in 1970.
Adopted in 2000 and reaffirmed by the leaders of 191 countries at the UN Summit in 2005, the Millennium Development Goals seek to halve world poverty by 2015 by setting targets for rolling back hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation and discrimination against women. [1] Thus the Match Against Poverty was created in 2003 at the ...
United Way of Central Georgia announced a new partnership with Atrium Health Navicent and Houston Healthcare to provide breast cancer screenings and treatment for uninsured and underinsured women.
Gertrude E. Metcalfe-Shaw (born 1864) was a British Suffragette and writer. She was twice arrested and she was awarded a Hunger Strike Medal.She later set out on a caravan journey in the 1920s to cross America from California to New York.