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welfare rights movement  

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  • Movement aimed at advancing the needs of people on welfare. Between 1966 and 1975, mothers of families on welfare united in a grassroots effort to advance their needs in the political sphere and to change the social stigma of shame and apathy that accompanied poverty. [Source: Encyclopedia of African American Society; Welfare Rights Movement]

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