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Author Phelps, Wesley G

Title A people's war on poverty : urban politics and grassroots activists in Houston / Wesley G. Phelps
Published Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2014]
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Contents Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction. The War on Poverty and the Expansion of Democracy; One. Declaring a War on Poverty in the Midst of "Pervasive Conservatism": The Tumultuous Road to Establishing a Community Action Agency, 1964-1965; Two. Creating an Alternative Antipoverty Philosophy for Houston: Grassroots Religious Activists and VISTA Workers Outside the City's Community Action Agency, 1964-1966; Three. An Aggressive Vision for the Community Action Program: Confrontational Politics and the Expansion of Democracy, 1966-1967
Four. A Closing Window of Opportunity for Expanding Democracy: Houston's Public Officials and the Taming of the Community Action Program, 1967Five. A Triumph for the Limited Vision of Democracy: New Leadership and the Expulsion of the Organizers, 1967-1969; Six. National Changes with Local Results: De- escalation of the War on Poverty, 1969-1976; Conclusion. The War on Democracy; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z
Summary In A People's War on Poverty, Wesley G. Phelps investigates the on-the-ground implementation of President Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty during the 1960s and 1970s. He 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 and the rights of citizenship that historians have largely overlooked. In Houston in particular, the War on Poverty spawned fierce political battles that revealed fundamental disagreements over what democracy meant, how far it should extend, and who s
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Community Action Program (U.S.) -- History
SUBJECT Community Action Program (U.S.) fast
Subject Community development -- Texas -- Houston -- History -- 20th century
Poor -- Services for -- Texas -- Houston -- History -- 20th century
Poor -- Political activity -- Texas -- Houston -- History -- 20th century
Poverty -- Government policy -- Texas -- Houston -- History -- 20th century
Social action -- Texas -- Houston -- History -- 20th century
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
Community development
Poor -- Political activity
Poor -- Services for
Poverty -- Government policy
Social action
Texas -- Houston
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2013029149
ISBN 9780820346724
0820346721