Luci Baines Johnson Volunteers for Head Start

Duration: 0:05:48

Year Published: 1965

Format: 16mm

Sound: silent

Description: Luci Baines Johnson, daughter of former President Lyndon Baines Johnson, is shown giving an eye exam to young African-American schoolchildren as part of Head Start’s Volunteers for Vision program.Created in 1965 as a component of Johnson’s War on Poverty, Head Start provided education, health, and nutrition services to low-income children and their parents. According to an April 14, 1965, article in the New York Times, 17-year-old Luci was asked to serve as the honorary chairperson of Volunteers for Vision because she had been working for a Washington optometrist.