As a Democratic senator and future presidential candidate, Robert F. Kennedy traveled to Mississippi in 1967 to expose a shocking problem: children starving. During the trip, Kennedy met with a family in their windowless shack and spent several minutes trying to talk to their 2-year-old, but the girl wouldn’t respond. She was too hungry. Her mother explained they couldn’t afford food stamps, which back then had to be purchased before they could be redeemed for groceries. “I saw conditions of