Read the full published text of the remarks of President Lyndon Baines Johnson upon signing the Economic Opportunity Act in 1964. The purpose of this act was to eliminate poverty, expand educational opportunities, and tend to the health...

This site from Journal of American Indian Education provides a speech by vice-president Hubert Humphrey, the benefits of the War on Poverty for Native Americans are described.

This site from Journal of American Indian Education provides the 1964 speech presented to the Governor's Interstate Indian Council describes reservation conditions and prospects, in light of the War on Poverty.

This site is a list of goals and targets set forth for the new Millennium as decided by the Millennium Declaration which was signed by 189 countries worldwide. Some of the goals involve topics such as improving primary education,...

This collection uses primary sources to explore the Food Stamp Program started in 1939 to assist those living below poverty levels. Set includes an overview, primary sources, links to related resources, and a teaching guide.

In this 1998 FRONTLINE interview, Harvard sociologist Dr. William Julius Wilson explains why, despite an overall increase in the standard of living among African Americans, a segment of the population is falling farther and farther behind.

This collection uses primary sources to explore settlement houses during the Progressive Era.

This is an online photocopy of the original text of the illustrated children's book Sara Crewe, or, What Happened at Miss Minchin's by Frances Hodgson Burnett (1888). In this novel, Sara Crewe, a pupil at Miss Minchin's London school, is...

This collection uses primary sources to the history of food stamp programs.

This collection uses primary sources to explore Lorraine Hansberry's play, A Raisin in the Sun.

The text of William Shakespeare's Sonnet 103.

Learn about the history of migrant workers in America by viewing the work of Dorothea Lange, one of the most famous photographers of the Great Depression.

This primary source set uses photographs, videos, reports, speeches, and memorandums to explore the motivations and effectiveness of the Great Society. Includes Teacher's guide.

This non-prose piece share what it would be like to go without having many material possessions.

A translated song from the University of Rochester concerning complaints by peasants about their lives and miseries caused by a King that does not care.