Much of this poverty was said to be "invisible." It affected Blacks in urban neighborhoods and whites in depressed rural areas like the Appalachian Mountains. Middle-class Americans never saw the misery in other sectors of American society. Poverty amid plenty was another paradox of the '50s, but most people were able to ignore it.
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