On January 13, 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson appoints the first African American cabinet member, making Robert C. Weaver head of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the agency that develops and implements national housing policy and enforces fair housing
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Part of The War on Poverty: a good read is Dr. Jean & Edgar Cahn’s The War on Poverty: A Civilian Perspective, 1963, Yale Law Journal
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