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Algeo, Matthew, author.
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Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968 -- Travel -- Appalachian Region.
Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968 -- Travel -- Kentucky.
Poverty -- Appalachian Region.
Poverty -- Kentucky.
Kentucky -- Social conditions.
Appalachian Region -- Social conditions.
United States -- Politics and government.
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All this marvelous potential : Robert Kennedy's 1968 tour of Appalachia / Matthew Algeo.
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Algeo, Matthew, author.
Chicago : Chicago Review Press, [2020]
Subjects
Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968 -- Travel -- Appalachian Region.
Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968 -- Travel -- Kentucky.
Poverty -- Appalachian Region.
Poverty -- Kentucky.
Kentucky -- Social conditions.
Appalachian Region -- Social conditions.
United States -- Politics and government.
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9781641600590 (cloth)
1641600594 (cloth)
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xv, 264 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
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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"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"--
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