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Poverty, Johnson Visit Highlight Martin County
In 1964 President Johnson launched the War on Poverty starting in Martin County Kentucky then the poorest all white area in the world. The piece recalls life in Inez Warfield and Wolf Creek before federal programs. it notes new poverty offices roads water systems doctors and rising income as reforms take hold without erasing rural culture.
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Inez
NEA
Lyndon Johnson
Johnson
Martin County
John W. Ford
Joe Meade
Warfield
Wolf Creek
Lady Bird
Office of Economic Opportunity
Eugene Ward