Claim: The percentage of black children born without a father in the home has risen from 7 percent in 1964 to 73 percent today, due to changes from President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society.
Fact-check: Facebook meme blames Great Society for large rise in African-American fatherlessness
Verdict: false
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Louis Jacobson
Date published: 2014-03-25T00:00:00