OPERATION HEAD START Part 7

Description

Documentary: Illustrates the need for Head Start programs in various urban and rural poverty areas. Shows poor housing conditions and describes how colleges, schools and churches organize together to promote Head Start. Includes actual scenes and sounds of children in preschool classrooms singing, playing, painting, on field trips and receiving medical attention. Shows parents and other volunteers entering the program as teachers' assistants. Explains how the program assists welfare officials in providing housing, clothing and jobs to poor families. Includes a 90 second introduction of Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson discussing Head Start and visiting a nursery school.

Collection

Records of the Community Services Administration

Series

Moving Images Relating to Anti-Poverty Programs