Model Cities Program

<p>The Model Cities Program was an element of U.S. President <a href="/facts/Lyndon_Johnson/PKNthHX1">Lyndon Johnson</a>'s <a href="/facts/Great_Society/w1zMdUsq">Great Society</a> and <a href="/facts/War_on_Poverty/jl7tvSFC">War on Poverty</a>. The concept was presented by labor leader <a href="/facts/Walter_Reuther/ed9CYaUX">Walter Reuther</a> to President Johnson in an off-the-record White House meeting on May 20, 1965. In 1966, new legislation led to the more than 150 five-year-long, Model Cities experiments to develop new <a href="/facts/Anti-poverty/qTXfx5c1">anti-poverty</a> programs and alternative forms of municipal government. Model Cities represented a new approach that emphasized social program as well as physical renewal, and sought to coordinate the actions of numerous government agencies in a multifaceted attack on the complex roots of urban poverty. The ambitious federal urban aid program succeeded in fostering a new generation of mostly black urban leaders. The program ended in 1974.
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Model Cities Program