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| Genre/Form: | Documentary television programs Video recordings for the hearing impaired |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Videorecording |
| Document Type: | Visual material, Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Terry Kay Rockefeller; Lynne Thigpen; Susan Bellows; Henry Hampton; Blackside, Inc.; PBS Video.; Civil Rights Project, Inc. |
| OCLC Number: | 34169612 |
| Language Note: | Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired. |
| Notes: | Viewer's guide published by Civil Rights Project, Inc. (486 Shawmut Ave., Boston, MA 02118-3373), also Includes bibliographical references (p. 23). |
| Credits: | Executive producer, Henry Hampton ; producer/director, Susan Bellows ; music, Nik Bariluk ; other credits vary with each program. |
| Performer(s): | Narrator, Lynne Thigpen. |
| Description: | 5 videocassettes (264 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 1/2 in. + 1 videodiscussion and viewer's guide (24 p. ; 28 cm.) |
| Details: | VHS format. |
| Contents: | In this affluent society (50 min.) -- Given a chance (53 min.) -- City of promise (54 min.) -- In service to America (54 min.) -- My brother's keeper (53 min.). |
| Other Titles: | In this affluent society. Given a chance. City of promise. In service to America. My brother's keeper. |
| Responsibility: | a production of Blackside ; series producer, Terry Kay Rockefeller. |
Abstract:
Examines the extent of poverty in the U.S. in the prosperous 1960s and how federal anti-poverty policies and programs were established and altered in the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administrations to promote education, job-training, community action, and basic health care. Such agencies and programs as: the Office of Economic Opportunity, Legal Services, VISTA, Head Start, and the National Welfare Rights Organization are also examined.
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- Poverty -- United States.
- Public welfare -- United States -- History -- 1961-1974.
- Economic assistance, Domestic -- United States -- History -- 1961-1974.
- Poor -- Services for -- United States -- History -- 1961-1974.
- United States -- Economic conditions -- 1961-1971.
- United States -- Economic conditions -- 1971-1981.
- United States -- Social conditions -- 1960-1980.
- United States. -- Office of Economic Opportunity -- History.
- Legal Services Program (U.S.) -- History.
- Volunteers in Service to America -- History.
- Head Start Program (U.S.) -- History.
- National Welfare Rights Organization (U.S.) -- History.
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