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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 ...
A long period of prosperity due to post–World War II economic expansion resulted in a large decrease in the number of people below the poverty line during the 1960s. Still, blacks and other minorities had a poverty rate three times that of whites, and poverty in the deep South, urban ghettos, and Indian Reservations was associated with starvation, hunger, and malnutrition.
Former slave, Georgia's first African-American Catholic nun [56] Louise Frederick Hays (1881–1951) 2004 Historian, director Georgia Department of Archives and History [57] Helen Dortch Longstreet (1863–1962) 2004 Social activist [58] Sarah McLendon Murphy (1892–1954) 2004 Children's activist [59] Emily Barnelia Woodward (1885–1970) 2004 ...
I will not play by its rules," vowed journalist Mzia Amaglobeli, who has been on hunger strike in a Georgian jail for 25 days. The founder of two news websites in Georgia, her health is declining ...
The right to food protects the right of all human beings to be free from hunger, food insecurity, and malnutrition. [4] The right to food implies that governments only have an obligation to hand out enough free food to starving recipients to ensure subsistence, it does not imply a universal right to be fed.
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.
Suffragists from Georgia (country) (5 P) Pages in category "Women's rights activists from Georgia (country)" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.
List of first women lawyers and judges in Georgia (law) Woman of the Century (1893 book) (wikisource) Follow the links to those pages to find sources to start with, if there are none on the wiki page click through to the associated website. There are also a few women listed here who aren't in any of the above lists, feel free to add more manually.