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A movement without marches : African American women and the politics of poverty in postwar Philadelphia / / Lisa Levenstein



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Autore: Levenstein Lisa Visualizza persona
Titolo: A movement without marches : African American women and the politics of poverty in postwar Philadelphia / / Lisa Levenstein Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2009
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (319 p.)
Disciplina: 305.48/89607307481109045
305.48896073074811
Soggetto topico: African American women - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia - History - 20th century
Poor women - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia - History - 20th century
African American women - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia - Social conditions - 20th century
African American women - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia
African Americans - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia - Economic conditions - 20th century
Poverty - Political aspects - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia - History - 20th century
Urban policy - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia - History - 20th century
Soggetto geografico: Philadelphia (Pa.) Race relations History 20th century
Philadelphia (Pa.) Politics and government 20th century
Philadelphia (Pa.) Social conditions 20th century
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-284) and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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
Sommario/riassunto: 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
Titolo autorizzato: A movement without marches  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8078-5942-7
1-4696-0588-0
0-8078-8998-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910813609603321
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Serie: John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.