HDFS470 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Economic Opportunity Act Of 1964, Lyndon B. Johnson, Promiscuity
19 Dec 2019
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Great society campaign and the war on poverty: Launched by president lyndon johnson during his state of the union - january 8, 1964. Led to the passing of the economic opportunity act which established the office of. The negro family: a case for national action. Described what he called the tangle of pathology in the urban ghetto in terms of criminality, unemployment, educational failure, and fatherlessness. The unraveling of the black family was associated with the fact that with growth rates of teenage pregnancy, young parents failed to complete school and find employment. Fathers were largely absent from the home, and single mothers often became welfare dependents. Blaming the victim (1971) which claimed that the moynihan report was racist in suggesting that the problems of the ghetto were the consequence of black male promiscuity: because whites had better access, things were things. There"s a sinew in the black family; a most resilient and adaptive people.
