Timework Web wrote:
> Carrol Cox asked:
>
> > What does MFY stand for?
>
> MFY: Mobilization for Youth, a New York City program in the late
> 1950s- early 1960s sponsored by the Ford Foundation (and others).
No wonder -- I was in grad school. No time for the outer world.
>
> OEO: Office of Economic Opportunity AKA the War on Poverty
Yeah -- That I know. Poor people actually got control of the local
program -- so the local city councils opted out and no federal money
ever arrived. It was fun while the battle lasted though.
Apparently MFY never got much headline space in the midwest --
or at least in Ann Arbor.
Carrol
