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- actually tried out new methods of bringing poor
people into the operation of programs that we accomplished our most
interesting work, and probably caused the biggest stir.
There was a pattern to some of these;, there was a design.
We
weren't haphazard
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articles for the New York Times for Bill Wirtz; there were pamphlets
for the Labor Department--a whole host of things.
G:
What was understood by the word "poverty", if you can recall, at that
time?
Was it discussed simply in terms of an economic line
- excluded from the political processes in the South and elsewhere would nonetheless participate in
the benefits of Community Action programs of the new legislation.
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