Operation Breakthrough (anti-poverty movement)

Operation Breakthrough is an anti-poverty movement founded by Terry Sandford in August 1964, established in Durham, North Carolina. It played a prominent and influential role in the expansion of the Civil Rights Movement in Durham. In the 1960s, one quarter of the adults in North Carolina that were older than 25 years had received at most a sixth-grade level education. This would suggest that many were illiterate.2

The concept, developed through the North Carolina Fund, was mimicked throughout the nation.

Throughout this movement, activism played a fundamental role. The main aim of the program consisted of changing the economic situation of a state through the use of political and social power.

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