Catholics supported Federal Aid for family planning clinics. In November, Congress passed Federal Public Law 89-749, the Comprehensive Health Planning and Public Health Services Act of 1966. It was part of President Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty and was intended to provide funding to states to support a variety of community health programs, including family planning services to poor women. At the encouragement of Father Theodore Hesburgh, in 1967, D'Antonio was asked to advise the first Family Planning office in South Bend. This included the establishment of the first family planning clinic; the St. Joseph County Family Planning Center. The University of Connecticut In 1971, D'Antonio left Notre Dame and became a professor at the University of Connecticut (UConn) where he also served as chair of their Sociology Department for five years. The reason for leaving Notre Dame was based in part on his concerns over growing racial and ethnic unrest in his home state. In 1974, he received an ethnic heritage grant from the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) to create booklets on the 12 largest ethnic-racial groups in Connecticut for use in high school programs. The goal was to help students of all ethnicity understand how they were all a vital part of the history of their town, state and country. The UConn School of Education successfully carried out the program for many years in an effort to reduce racial discrimination by promoting cultural understanding and ethnic pride. Another area of political activism served by D'Antonio involved a new group of faculty leaders organized under the banner of the AAUP, the American Association of University Professors. They accepted then governor Ella Grasso's invitation to organize themselves as unions able to bargain with the State over salaries and other employee benefits. During this time period D'Antonio was also active in collective bargaining efforts with State legislatures on behalf of the faculty to ensure good pension plans and health insurance for life. His introductory textbook, co-authored with Melvin and Lois DeFleur: Man in Society, was published by Scott Foresman in 1971. It was the first mass-market sociology textbook and sold a record number of books in its first printing. The book's success turned his attention to the manner in which sociology was being taught to students during a time period which brought many changes in the United States (Civil Rights, the Vietnam War, The Women's Movement). He organized