Frontmatter -- Contents -- Chapter 1. Anti-Poverty as a Civil Rights Issue? -- Chapter 2. Assessing and Explaining Shifts in Organizational Priorities -- Chapter 3. Civil Rights Organizations and the War on Poverty -- Chapter 4. Civil Rights Organizations' Anti-Poverty Activities During the Late 1960s and Early 1970s -- Chapter 5. Explaining Priority Shifts During the 1960s -- Chapter 6. Explaining Priority Shifts During the Early 1970s -- Chapter 7. Recent Battles, Recent Challenges -- Chapter 8. Conclusions -- Appendix A. Archival Research and Coding -- Appendix B. Magnitude of Shifts in Organizational Attention to Anti-Poverty Policy -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Notes to Figure Sources -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary
In Civil Rights Advocacy on Behalf of the Poor, Catherine M. Paden examines five civil rights organizations and explores why they chose to represent the poor--specifically, low-income African Americans--during six legislative periods considering welfare reform
