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The Great Society was a series of domestic programs enacted by President Lyndon B. Johnson in the United States from 1964 to 1968, with the stated goals of totally eliminating poverty and racial injustice in the country.
"The Great Society" was a popular name for musical groups in the 1960s due to the popularity of the term as used by Lyndon B. Johnson's administration for his Great Society. On one occasion, in Fort Worth, Texas, the Great Society (with Grace Slick) and a similarly named four-man group performed on opposite sides of the city on the same evening.
The Great Society may refer to: Great Society, a program of domestic legislation initiated by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson; The Great Society (band), a 1960s rock band from San Francisco featuring Grace Slick, which took its name from Johnson's initiative; The Great Society (play), by Robert Schenkkan, a follow-up to All the Way (play ...
Pages in category "Great Society programs" The following 25 pages are in this category, out of 25 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. * Great Society; A.
Job Corps was therefore initiated as the central program of the Johnson Administration's War on Poverty, part of his domestic agenda known as the Great Society. Sargent Shriver, the first Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity, modeled the program on the Depression-era Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). Established in the 1930s as an ...
Born to Be Burned is a compilation album by the San Francisco garage rock and psychedelic rock band the Great Society. [1] The album is made up of material recorded during the band's short-lived association with Autumn Records in 1965, with the majority of it previously unreleased. [1]
Darby Slick Slick in 2011 Background information Birth name Dabney Roger Slick Born (1944-02-26) February 26, 1944 (age 80) Dallas, Texas, U.S. Instrument Guitar Years active 1965–present Musical artist Dabney Roger "Darby" Slick (born February 26, 1944) is an American guitarist and songwriter, best known as a former member of the Great Society and the writer of the Jefferson Airplane song ...
David Miner (born July 24, 1945), sometimes credited as David Minor, [1] is an American singer, guitarist and songwriter, perhaps best known as a member of The Great Society in the 1960s. [1] He co-founded The Great Society along with Jerry, Darby, and Grace Slick as well as Bard Du Pont, in the sense that he was there from the start.