America's war on poverty
Subtitle: Vol.1 : In this affluent society
By: produced by Blackside, Inc. ; produced and directed by Susan Bellows ; written by Terry Kay Rockefeller
Contributors: Thigpen, Lynne; Blackside, Inc; PBS Video
Series: CJA 457 (NU course)
Publisher: Distributed by PBS Video
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Alexandria, Va
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 60
Subjects: Poverty; Poor; Domestic Economic assistance; Video recordings for the hearing impaired; Economic conditions
Other titles: In this affluent society; America's war on poverty (Television program)
Description: In the early 1960s, hundreds of Kentucky coal miners are displaced by machines and strike out at their former employers. Millions of others displaced by machines across Appalachia and the rural South head north to begin a new life in Chicago, where they face overcrowded tenements and schools, and the familiar inequities of segregation. This program recounts these stories of desperation and hope and explores the origins of the federal government's war on poverty and how attitudes toward race and faith in the accessibility of the American dream shape the battle plans for the nation's greatest effort to reduce poverty.--Container.
Notes: Originally broadcast as a segment of: America's war on poverty.

Director of photography, Michael Chin; editor, Sharon Sachs.

Narrator: Lynne Thigpen.

VHS.

Closed-captioned.