More on our series Food Rebel. There is evidence that scholars should call President Lyndon B Johnson’s (LBJ) War on Poverty program a food rebel policy. Johnson understood that hunger had been a problem during his time in the US Senate and the White House. The creation of food co-ops in served as a response to a need for affordable nutritious food for lower caste communities and as such he supported them and other grass roots solutions to ending hunger. Starting in 1965 federal funds from the War on Poverty program made it into the hands of the poor through local political bosses. A political boss is one who holds power over voting district because they can deliver large numbers of voters for a candidate or an initiative on election day. In exchange party leaders give them control of how government funds are spent for local antipoverty programs, construction projects, and decision-making power when it comes to political appointments and patronage jobs in the districts that they control. In 1974 Fort Greene Community Corporation, an antipoverty program, opened the 18,000 square-foot Fort Greene Co-Op Supermarket. The co-op had 30 employees, and a customer base made up of lower caste black and Latino Fort Greene community residents.