THE GREAT SOCIETY
What is the Great Society?
The next decade, the States saw the largest expansion on domestic programs since the New Deal.
"THE GREAT SOCIETY"
LBJ at Michigan University
"...with your courage and with your compassion and your desire, we will build the Great Society. It is a Society where no child will go unfed, and no youngster will go unschooled. Where no man who wants work will fail to find it. Where no citizen will be barred from any door because of his birthplace or his color or his church. Where peace and security is common among neighbors and possible among nations."
- Lyndon B. Johnson, Remarks in Athens at Ohio University
The Great Society was proposed to solve all the domestic problems present in America -- all inequalities, racial or economic.
From Washington Post, “The Great Society at 50.”
It defines a series of domestic programs that encompass a variety of goals, including ending poverty, reducing crime, abolishing inequality. Over a 200 legislative acts were passed.
A Reform in Mind
From New York Daily News, January 5th, 1965, Vol.46, No.166.
The key focus is on opportunity, to "establish a harmony between man and society which will allow each of us to enlarge the meaning of his life and all of us to elevate the qualities of our civilization".