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Title
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Fairfax County's Gum Springs in Line For First Suburban Poverty Grant
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Repository
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ProQuest Historical Newspapers
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Date Created
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2/17/1965
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Creator
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By: Lon Tuck
The Washington Post
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Description
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Article on the approval of a United Planning Organization (a Washington D.C. based poverty program) grant for Gum Springs. Later approved for $67,000 through the LBJ administration's Office of Economic Opportunity the UPO and this grant was part of the broader Community Action Program that created the Saunders B. Moon organization. These grants headed off by the community itself demonstrate the power of community organization against displacement in place through self-reliance and resistance.
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Index/Partial Transcript
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"If passed by the Office of Economic Opportunity, headquarts for the Johnson Administration's war on poverty, and by Virginia Gov. Albertis S. Harrison, Gum Springs would become the first suburban Washington community to qualify for such an award.
"Officials said that the Gum Springs project received approval earlier than others because Gum Springs leaders had developed preliminary plans when the application was made."
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Research Themes
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Gum Springs
United Planning Organization
Office of Economic Opportunity
Saunders B. Moon
Community Action Program
Community Action Programs
Johnson Administration
War on Poverty
Education
Housing
Employment
Community organization
Community resistance
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Type
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Newspaper
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Researcher Name
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Jacob Connelly
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Bibliographic Citation
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Tuck, Lon. “Fairfax County’s Gum Springs in Line For First Suburban Poverty Grant.” The Washington Post, February 17, 1965, sec. City Life.
