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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 ...
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.
August 14 – President Johnson signs the Government Employees Salary Reform Act of 1964 into law. President Johnson says the legislation "ranks near the top of the list in importance to the entire country" out of the multiple measures enacted that year and marks the first time the government has been given "the tools to identify and inspire ...
It was Johnson's first State of the Union Address and his second speech to a joint session of the United States Congress after the assassination of his predecessor John F. Kennedy in November 1963. Presiding over this joint session was House speaker John W. McCormack , accompanied by President pro tempore Carl Hayden , in his capacity as the ...
The act reflected Johnson's belief that the government could best help the impoverished by providing them with economic opportunities. [201] During the Johnson administration, national poverty declined significantly, with the percentage of Americans living below the poverty line dropping from 23 to 12 percent. [3]
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.
Fannie Lou Hamer’s path to the 1964 Democratic National Convention began in rural poverty. Born on Oct. 6, 1917, Hamer was the granddaughter of enslaved Black people and worked as a sharecropper ...
The Office of Economic Opportunity was created through the efforts of President Lyndon Johnson in his War on Poverty campaign, which aimed to tackle economic and racial inequality. In 1964, Johnson signed the Economic Opportunity Act, the legislative keystone for this campaign that provided funding for the OEO as a new agency within the Office ...