PEACE HISTORY 8/20

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1964

A nearly $1 billion anti-poverty measure, The Economic Opportunity Act, which created Head Start, VISTA (Volunteers In Service To America), and other programs that become part of the “War on Poverty,” was signed into law by Pres. Lyndon Johnson. Sargent Shriver, the first director of the Peace Corps, drafted the legislation and became director of the Office of Equal Opportunity which implemented the new law.

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