In a podcast for America Magazine, Thomas Landy, director of the McFarland Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture at the College of the Holy Cross, discusses the impact of Holy Cross alumnus Michael Harrington’s “The Other America,” a seminal book on poverty in the United States that is said to have inspired President Lyndon B. Johnson’s War on Poverty and other social reforms of the 1960s.
The College recently held a conference titled “The Other America Then and Now,” to mark the 50th anniversary of the book. Renowned historians, sociologists and activists including William Julius Wilson, Maurice Isserman, Peter Dreier, David O’Brien, Bruce Western, Annette Lareau and others spoke at the two-day conference.
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This “Holy Cross in the News” item by Cristal Steuer.
