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Dr. King’s steadfast commitment to economic justice prompted his pivotal relationship with President Lyndon B. Johnson and the subsequent passage of the most significant civil rights legislation of the 20th century, as part of Johnson’s newly declared War on Poverty.

Shriver played a pivotal role in the War on Poverty.

Today, the War on Poverty has become a war on the poor.

When Reagan first workshopped that rhetoric, in his 1966 campaign for governor of California, the “war on poverty” had just begun; the overall poverty rate was 17%, but for Black America in 1965 it was more than 40%.

By 1980, Reagan and his party had a clear record of dislike for the war on poverty and those it intended to help.