From the cotton fields to the desert sands : living and leaving the delta life -- "The Mississippi of the west" : Jim Crow in Sin City -- "Bad luck and lousy people" : Black single mothers and the war on poverty -- "If it wasn't for you, I'd have shoes for my children" : welfare rights come to Las Vegas -- Storming Caesars Palace : poverty and power in Las Vegas -- Dragging Nevada kicking and screaming into the twentieth century -- "We can do it and do it better" : revitalizing a community from the bottom up -- Can welfare mothers do community economic development? : the triumphs and trials of Operation Life -- Maybe we were fighting history : the legacy of Operation Life
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Online resource; title from title screen (ProQuest, viewoed on April 20, 2021)
