New Orleans After the Promises: Poverty, Citizenship, and the Search for the Great Society

Author/Contributor(s):	Germany, Kent B
Publisher:	University of Georgia Press
Date:	02/01/2007
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Germany offers a detailed portrait of the complex city that developed after its last epic reconstruction. He examines how the civil rights, antipoverty, and therapeutic initiatives of the Great Society dovetailed with the struggles of black New Orleanians for full citizenship to transform public life in one of America's oldest cities.