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

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A People's War on Poverty: Urban Politics and Grassroots Activists in Houston - Phelps, Wesley G
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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.

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A People's War on Poverty: Urban Politics and Grassroots Activists in Houston 2014, University of Georgia Press, Athens

ISBN-13: 9780820346717

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