ABSTRACT
The Federal government enacted the Economic Opportunity Act in 1964 and with it, began the well known period of “The War On Poverty.” This Act created, among many other things, a new vehicle for communitybased organizing, planning and activism, the “community action agency” (CAA). The heart of the CAA initiative was community empowerment and activism, and the underlying philosophy of the Community Action Program (CAP) was the “maximum feasible participation” of community members.
