Lyndon Baines Johnson (US president, 1963-1969)

Civil Rights Act of 1964

War on Poverty

John Kenneth Galbraith, The Affluent Society (1958)

Mobilization for Youth

Lloyd Ohlin & Richard Cloward, Delinquency and Opportunity (1960)

Michael Harrington, The Other America (1962)

Robert F. Kennedy (US Attorney General under JFK, later US Senator from New York)

"Community Action Programs"

Economic Opportunity Act (1964)

Office of Economic Opportunity (Sargent Shriver, director)

Head Start

Legal Services

Job Corps

"Maximum Feasible Participation"