The smashing success of “We Are the World” in 1985 inspired band manager Ken Kragen to arrange another celebrity-studded event for the spring of 1986: “Hands Across America.” Over 5 million people donated $10 each in exchange for a T-shirt and a spot in a hand-linked line stretching all the way from New York City to Los Angeles. This event refocused America’s attention on hunger at home. The children of two homeless families assumed the positions on either end of the enormous human chain, holding hands with celebrities and ordinary people.