Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Something new for the South?
  • A European-African-Caribbean-American-Southern city
  • Establishing the early war on poverty
  • Building community action
  • Challenging the establishment and the color line
  • Making better and happier citizens
  • Defusing the southern powder keg
  • Making workers and jobs
  • Making groceries
  • Making a model New Orleans
  • The thugs united and the politics of manhood
  • Women, welfare, and political mobilization
  • Acronyms, liberalism, and electoral politics, 1969-1971
  • Panthers, snipers, and the limits of liberalism
  • Conclusion: Prelude to Katrina.