This 1968 cartoon by Clifford H. "Baldy" Baldowski depicts U.S. senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina walking past ramshackle houses and stepping over poor African American children while declaring, "Poverty? Ah been walkin' these woods all my life an' ah never see no poverty." Meanwhile South Carolina senator Ernest Hollings points to the problems while holding papers that read "South Carolina's Severe Hunger Problem." In 1969 Hollings took a "hunger tour" through South Carolina as part of his service on the McGovern Committee. U.S. senator Herman Talmadge of Georgia conducted a similar tour in his home state and soon thereafter introduced legislation to strengthen the National School Lunch Program.Atlanta Constitution, 1968, Clifford H. "Baldy" Baldowski Editorial Cartoons.
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