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A movement without marches [electronic resource]

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Lisa Levenstein reframes highly charged debates over the origins of chronic African American poverty and the social policies and political struggles that led to the postwar urban crisis. A Movement Without Marches follows poor black women as they traveled from some of Philadelphia's most impoverished neighborhoods into its welfare offices, courtrooms, public housing, schools, and hospitals, laying claim to an unprecedented array of government benefits and services. With these resources came new constraints, as public officials frequently responded to women's efforts by limiting benefit

Title A movement without marches [electronic resource] : African American women and the politics of poverty in postwar Philadelphia / Lisa Levenstein.
Publisher Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press
Creation Date c2009
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-284) and index.
English
Content Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Multidimensionality of Poverty in a Postwar City
One: ""Tired of Being Seconds"" on ADC
Two: Hard Choices at 1801 Vine
Three: Housing, Not a Home
Four: ""Massive Resistance"" in the Public Schools
Five: A Hospital of Their Own
Conclusion
Appendix: Note on First-Person Sources
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Series The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
Extent 1 online resource (319 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997010718239105171
MARC RECORDS

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