The Invisible Poverty of ''The Other America'' of the 1960s Is Far More Visible Today
Peter Dreier, Truthout: ''Fifty years ago (in March 1962) Michael Harrington wrote a book, 'The Other America: Poverty in the United States', a haunting tour of deprivation in an affluent society, that inspired Presidents Kennedy and Johnson to wage a war on poverty. This slim, 186-page volume became a best-seller and became required reading for social scientists, elected officials, college students, members of study groups sponsored by churches and synagogues, reporters and intellectuals, the new wave of community organizers and the student activists who traveled to the South to join the civil rights crusade.''
http://truth-out.org/news/item/8040-michael-harrington-and-deprivation-in-an-affluent-society
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The New Face of Poverty
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2012/04/04-0
Disenfranchised in America
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2012/04/04
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=poverty
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=civil+rights
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Peter+Dreier
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http://truth-out.org/news/item/8040-michael-harrington-and-deprivation-in-an-affluent-society
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The New Face of Poverty
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2012/04/04-0
Disenfranchised in America
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2012/04/04
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=poverty
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=civil+rights
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Peter+Dreier
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Starmail - 23. Mär, 06:16
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