Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2011.
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• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Introduction : The war on poverty from the grass roots up / Annelise Orleck — This government is with us : Lyndon Johnson and the grassroots war on poverty / Guian A. McKee — To challenge the status quo by any means : community action and representational politics in 1960s Baltimore / Rhonda Y. Williams — Ideological diversity and the implementation of the war on poverty in Houston / Wesley G. Phelps — Defining the space of participation in a northern city : Tejanos and the war on poverty in Milwaukee / Marc S. Rodriguez — Saving babies in Memphis : the politics of race, health, and hunger during the war on poverty / Laurie B. Green — Someday…the colored and white will stand together : the war on poverty, Black power politics, and Southern women’s interracial alliances / Christina Greene — Parent power : Evelina López Antonetty, the United Bronx parents, and the war on poverty / Adina Back — Gender, civil rights activism, and the war on poverty in Los Angeles / Robert Bauman — Poverty wars in the Louisiana delta : white resistance, black power, and the poorest place in America / Kent B. Germany — Plantation politics : the Tufts-Delta Health Center and intraracial class conflict in Mississippi, 1965-1972 / Greta de Jong — Fighting for the child development group of Mississippi : poor people, local politics, and the complicated legacy of Head Start / Amy Jordan — Going back to Selma : organizing for change in Dallas county after the march to Montgomery / Susan Youngblood Ashmore — The war on poverty and the Chicano movement in Texas : confronting Tio Tomás and the Gringo pseudoliberals / William Clayson — Looking back to the city in the hills : the Council of the Southern Mountains and a longer view of the war on poverty in the Appalachian South, 1913-1970 / Thomas Kiffmeyer — The war on poverty in Mississippi and Oklahoma : beyond Black and White / Daniel M. Cobb — The house that equality built : the Asian American movement and the legacy of community action / Karen M.

Subjects:

• Poverty — Government policy — United States — History — 20th century.
• Economic assistance, Domestic — United States — History — 20th century.
• Poor — Political activity — United States — History — 20th century.
• Community development — United States — History — 20th century.
• Public welfare — United States — History — 20th century.

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