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All this marvelous potential : Robert Kennedy's 1968 tour of Appalachia
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All this marvelous potential : Robert Kennedy's 1968 tour of Appalachia / Matthew Algeo.
ISBN
9781641600590
1641600594
9781641600606
9781641600620
9781641600613
Publication
Chicago : Chicago Review Press, [2020]
Physical Description
xv, 264 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
Summary
"In early 1968, Senator Robert F. Kennedy ventured deep into the heart of Eastern Kentucky to gauge the progress of President Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty. Author Matthew Algeo meticulously retraces RFK's tour of the region, visiting the places he visited and meeting with the people he met, and explains how and why the region has changed since 1968, and why it matters for the rest of the country"-- Provided by publisher.
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Robert Kennedy's 1968 tour of Appalachia
Other formats
Online version: Algeo, Matthew. All this marvelous potential Chicago : Chicago Review Press, [2020]
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 30, 2021
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-252) and index.
Contents
Robert F. Kennedy's itinerary
Introduction
Part I: Before the trip. Night
Dysgenics
Replace their despair
Tom Fletcher
An article in Life
Poverty obsessed
A pioneer in opposition research
Part II: Tuesday, February 13, 1968. 1:00 PM-Vortex
Swango Fugate
Black and proud
Reverend Connie
Just pee in this jug
Sedition
2:30 PM-Barwick
Three licks and a smile
3:30 PM-Hazard
5:00 PM-Yellow Creek, a guy who wore horns
Hell, I'll handle this
A prairie in the mountains
The Globe woman
7:00 PM-Pippa passes, Reverend Baldridge
The deepening swamp
"Ulysses"
Campaign
Lurleen
Part III: Wednesday, February 14, 1968. 8:00 AM-Whitesburg
A winter tan
To cure poverty
10:00 AM-Neon, waiting for Kennedy
Nell
Make yourselves comfortable
A worm in a miniskirt
The AVs
The Cloverfork Newsletter
The average homosexual
Paper bags
The war on welfare queens
Dave Zegeer
The Zegeer files
All the girls
4:00 PM-Prestonsburg
From the Kentucky coal mines...
...to the California sun
Part IV: After the trip. Another thing I wish to comment on is your long hair
I knew something was wrong
Cote's Cemetery.
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