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Read the excerpt from a 1965 speech by President Lyndon B. Johnson.
To this end, equal opportunity is essential, but not enough, not enough. Men and women of all races are born with the same range of abilities. But ability is not just the product of birth. Ability is stretched or stunted by the family that you live with and the neighborhoods you live in, by the school you go to and the poverty or the richness of your surroundings. It is the product of a hundred unseen forces playing upon the little infant, the child, and finally the man. . . .
. . . Negroes are trapped, as many whites are trapped, in inherited, gateless poverty. They lack training and skills. They are shut in, in slums, without decent medical care. Private and public poverty combine to cripple their capacities.
We are trying to attack these evils through my poverty program, through our education program, through our medical care and our other health programs, and a dozen more of the Great Society programs that are aimed at the root causes of this poverty.
–Howard University commencement address,
Lyndon B. Johnson
What is the Great Society that Johnson refers to in the speech?
A. a plan to increase America’s wealth
B. an evangelical movement
C. a campaign for liberal social initiatives
D. an increase in taxes for the wealthy
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Read the excerpt from a 1965 speech by President Lyndon B. Johnson.
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