The Commission was formed in 1966 by President Lyndon B. Johnson as an advisory group charged with evaluating rural poverty in the United States in order to plan legislative actions to be taken in Johnson's War on Poverty. Chairperson of the Commission was Kentucky governor Edward T. Breathitt; its executive director was C. E. Bishop. Commission staff wrote technical papers and filed special reports containing summaries and recommendations based on public hearings conducted in Tucson, Arizona; Memphis, Tennessee; Washington, D. C.; and Berea, Kentucky. The final report was published as THE PEOPLE LEFT BEHIND (1967). The Commission was abolished in 1969 by President Richard M. Nixon.
From the description of Records, 1966-1967. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 191916769
