In A People’s War on Poverty, Wesley G. Phelps investigates the on-the-ground implementation of President Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty during the 1960s and 1970s. He argues that the fluid interaction between federal policies, urban politics, and grassroots activists created a significant site of conflict over the meaning of American democracy and the rights of citizenship that historians have l...
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Publisher: University of Georgia Press (March 15, 2014)
Publication Date: March 15, 2014
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Language: English
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reviews: This book is an excellent framing of the civil rights and poor people's movement in Houston, TX. Against the backdrop ofJohnson's war on poverty and all its implications for racial, inequality and economic well-being, Phelps examines the grassroots m...
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