An ideal resource for students as well as general readers, this book comprehensively examines the Great Society era and identifies the effects of its legacy to the present day.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
List of Entries.
List of Primary Documents.
Introduction.
A.
1: Affirmative Action.
2: African American Civil Rights Movement.
3: Appalachian Poverty.
B.
4: Banfield, Edward, and The Unheavenly City.
5: Beautification of the United States.
6: Birmingham Church Bombing.
7: Black Panther Party.
8: Buckley, William F., Jr..
C.
9: Califano, Joseph A., Jr..
10: Carmichael, Stokely.
11: Carson, Rachel, and Silent Spring.
12: Caudill, Harry, and Night Comes to the Cumberlands: A Biography of a Depressed Area.
13: Chávez, César.
14: Chicano/Chicana Civil Rights Movement (El Movimiento).
15: Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act of 1965.
16: Civil Rights Act of 1964.
17: Civil Rights from the Great Society to the Obama Administration.
18: Clinton Administration and the “End of Welfare as We Know It”.
19: Coal and the Persistence of Poverty in Appalachia.
20: Cohen, Wilbur.
21: Community Action Program.
22: Consumer Protection Movement.
23: Counterculture and the Anti-War Movement.
24: Culture of Poverty.
D.
25: Daley, Richard J..
26: Dirksen, Everett.
E.
27: Endangered Species Preservation Act of 1966 and Endangered Species Conservation Act of 1969.
28: Environmental Movement.
29: Equal Pay Act of 1963.
F.
30: Food Stamp Act of 1964.
G.
31: Galbraith, John Kenneth, and The Affluent Society.
32: Goldwater, Barry.
33: Goodwin, Richard.
34: Great Society in Indian Country.
35: Green, Edith.
H.
36: Harrington, Michael, and The Other America.
37: Harris, LaDonna.
38: Hayden, Tom.
39: Head Start and Education Reform.
40: Health Care Reform: From Medicare and Medicaid to the Affordable Care Act/Obamacare.
