Building the Great Society

by Joshua Zeitz

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  INDEX

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  Acheson, Dean, 211

  Ackley, Gardner, 219, 220

  Adams, Sherman, 20, 273

  Addonizio, Hugh, 263

  Affluent Society, The (Galbraith), 45, 47

  Affordable Care Act (ACA), 161–62

  AFL-CIO, 158, 161, 222, 239, 251, 280

  African Americans:

  employment and, 88, 94, 97, 98, 115, 164, 176, 239, 242, 256–58, 311

  family structure and, 54–55, 256–58, 259, 313

  housing discrimination and, 97–98, 176, 237–40, 242–43, 253–54, 258, 284

  immigrants and, 193

  poverty and, 4, 48, 54–55

  slavery and, 138, 193, 257, 258

  South left by, 97, 240

  welfare and, 97, 241, 242

  see also civil rights

  Agger, Carolyn, 269, 270

  Agnew, Spiro T., 304

  Agriculture Department, xiv, 48, 83, 198

  Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), 31, 241–42, 256, 278, 297–98, 308

  Air Quality Act, 202

  Alinsky, Saul, 85, 87

  Alsop, Joseph, 38, 90, 224

  American Advertising Federation, 266–67

  American Businessman, 22–23

  American Hospital Association, 160, 162, 180

  American Medical Association (AMA), 154–59, 161–62

  Americans for Democratic Action (ADA), 204

  American University, 297

  Anderson, Clinton, 85

  Anderson, Glenn, 236

  Anderson, Robert, 14–15, 108

  Arnett, Peter, 215–16

  Arnold, Thurman, 30, 34–35

  arts, 202–3, 225, 314, 315

  Associated Press (AP), xiv

  Austin, Paul, 296

  Baker, Bobby, 117, 269

  Ball, George, 211, 276, 291