A People's War on Poverty: Urban Politics and Grassroots Activists in Houston

A People's War on Poverty: Urban Politics and Grassroots Activists in Houston

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Author/Contributor(s): Phelps, Wesley G
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Date: 04/15/2014
Binding: Paperback
Condition: NEW
Phelps investigates the on-the-ground implementation of President Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty during the 1960s and 1970s and argues that the fluid interaction between federal policies, urban politics, and grassroots activists created a significant site of conflict over the meaning of American democracy.