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The Community Action Agency of St. Louis County, is a poverty fighting nonprofit that has been serving St. Louis county residents for 53 years, as part of President Lyndon Johnson’s , “War on Poverty,” initiative that was headed by the late Sargent Shriver. —— Cenia Bosman, President and CEO, joins Tangazo cohost Tim Person and social justice activist, Reverend Darryl Gregory Gray, to talk about her agency’s history and commitment to helping to eradicate poverty in St. Louis County. —— Also joining us is poverty expert, Dr. Adam Green PhD. Associate Professor of American History at the University of Chicago, a longtime collaborator of the Sargent Shriver Peace Institute and leading the efforts to edit and annotate the forthcoming memoir by Sargent Shriver, “We Called It a War.” The memoir outlines Sargent Shrivers efforts to lead the War on Poverty, declared by President Johnson in 1964. —— Dr. Green, will be the keynote speaker at the Community Action Agency of St. Louis County’s, 7th Annual “Doors of Opport