Title Poor Atlanta : poverty, race, and the limits of Sunbelt development / LeeAnn B. Lands

Published Athens, Georgia : The University of Georgia Press, [2023] ©2023

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 281 pages) : illustrations, maps Contents Early beginnings -- Economic opportunity Atlanta -- Vine City -- The poor folks movement -- Welfare and workplace -- Housing crisis -- Lobbying for welfare -- Conclusion Summary "Poor Atlanta looks at the poor people's campaigns in Atlanta in the 1960s and 1970s, which operated in relationship to Sunbelt city- building efforts. With these efforts, city leaders aimed to prevent urban violence, staunch disinvestment, check white flight, and amplify Atlanta's importance as a business and transportation hub. As urban leaders promoted Forward Atlanta, a program to, in Mayor Ivan Allen Jr.'s words, "sell the city like a product," poor families insisted that their lives and living conditions, too, should improve. While not always operating within public awareness, antipoverty campaigns among the poor presented a regular and sometimes strident critique of inequality and Atlanta's uneven urban development. With Poor Atlanta, LeeAnn B. Lands demonstrates that, while eclipsed by the Black freedom movement, antipoverty organizing (including direct action campaigns, legal actions, lobbying, and other forms of activism) occurred with regularity from 1964 through 1976. Her analysis is one of the few citywide studies of antipoverty organizing in late twentieth-century America"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes LEEANN B. LANDS is a professor of history at Kennesaw State University Print version record Subject Poverty -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- History -- 20th century Poor -- Political activity -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- History -- 20th century Economic assistance, Domestic -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- History -- 20th century Social conditions Poverty Poor -- Political activity Economic history Economic assistance, Domestic SUBJECT Atlanta (Ga.) -- Economic conditions -- 20th century Atlanta (Ga.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century Subject Georgia -- Atlanta Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780820363271 0820363278

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