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Lyndon Johnson

Movement:"war on poverty" Purpose and Drive:"When I was fourteen years old I decided I was not going to be the victim of a system which would allow the price of a commodity like cotton to drop from forty cents to six cents and destroy the homes of people like my own family." Occupation: retired US president

Other info: -Civil Rights Act:banned race and gender discrimination in employment and segregated public facilities -Economic Opportunity Act: aimed at attacking poverty -Job Corps -"Great Society" to eliminate troubles of the poor -The Wilderness Protection Act: saved 9.1 million acres from development -The Elementary and Secondary Education Act: provided funding to public schools -The Voting Rights Act: banned literacy tests and other discriminatory methods that denied voting rights to blacks -Medicare: offset the costs of health care for elderly -The Immigration Act: ended discriminatory quotas based on origin

Quotes: "The challenge of the next half century is whether we have the wisdom to use [our] wealth to enrich and elevate our national life, and to advance the quality of our American civilization...For in your time we have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society. The Great Society rests on abundance and liberty for all. It demands an end to poverty and racial injustice, to which we are totally committed in our time...Will you join in the battle to build the Great Society, to prove that our material progress is only the foundation on which we will build a richer life of mind and spirit?"

Sources: http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/archives.hom/speeches.hom/640522.asp http://millercenter.org/president/lbjohnson/essays/biography/2 www.ushistory.org/us/56e.asp