Civil rights advocacy on behalf of the poor /
In Civil Rights Advocacy on Behalf of the Poor, Catherine M. Paden examines five civil rights organizations and explores why they chose to represent the poor--specifically, low-income African Americans--during six legislative periods considering welfare reform.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
2011.
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Colección: | American governance.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Chapter 1. Anti-Poverty as a Civil Rights Issue?
- Chapter 2. Assessing and Explaining Shifts in Organizational Priorities
- Chapter 3. Civil Rights Organizations and the War on Poverty
- Chapter 4. Civil Rights Organizations' Anti-Poverty Activities During the Late 1960s and Early 1970s
- Chapter 5. Explaining Priority Shifts During the 1960s
- Chapter 6. Explaining Priority Shifts During the Early 1970s
- Chapter 7. Recent Battles, Recent Challenges
- Chapter 8. Conclusions
- Appendix A. Archival Research and Coding
- Appendix B. Magnitude of Shifts in Organizational Attention to Anti-Poverty Policy
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Notes to Figure Sources
- Bibliography
- Index.