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- Book Title
- People's War on Poverty : Urban Politics and Grassroots Activists in Houston
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Topic
- United States / 20th Century, Development / General, Poverty & Homelessness, Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare
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- Textbook
- Age Level
- Adults
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- Item Length
- 9 in
- Original Language
- English
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Publication Year
- 2014
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- Language
- English
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- Business & Economics, History, Social Science, Political Science
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- 6 in
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- Number of Pages
- 264 Pages
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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 should benefit from it. Many of the program's implementers took seriously the federal mandate to empower the poor as they pushed for a more participatory form of democracy that would include more citizens in the political, cultural, and economic life of the city. At the center of this book are the vitally important but virtually forgotten grassroots activists who administered federal War on Poverty programs, including church ministers, federal program volunteers, students, local administrators, civil rights activists, and the poor themselves. The moderate Great Society liberalism that motivated the architects of the federal programs certainly galvanized local antipoverty activists in Houston. However, their antipoverty philosophy was driven further by prophetic religious traditions and visions of participatory democracy and community organizing championed by the New Left and iconoclastic figures like Saul Alinsky. By focusing on these local actors, Phelps shows that grassroots activists in Houston were influenced by a much more diverse set of intellectual and political traditions, fueling their efforts to expand the meaning of democracy. Ultimately, this episode in Houston's history reveals both the possibilities and the limits of urban democracy in the twentieth century.
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University of Georgia Press
ISBN-10
0820346713
ISBN-13
9780820346717
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Book Title
People's War on Poverty : Urban Politics and Grassroots Activists in Houston
Original Language
English
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
United States / 20th Century, Development / General, Poverty & Homelessness, Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare
Publication Year
2014
Type
Textbook
Genre
Business & Economics, History, Social Science, Political Science
Number of Pages
264 Pages
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Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Item Weight
0 Oz
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"Wesley Phelps reveals a largely unacknowledged Houston. He tells a story of poverty and power through a series of moments when a diverse group of local people told a generation how things had to be different. Battling over ideas from prophetic Christianity, the radical New Left, the emerging Sunbelt, the Old South, and the controversial War on Poverty, they launched a fierce argument about the kind of power that working Americans should have and the kind of Houston that would emerge from the end of Jim Crow."--Kent B. Germany, author of New Orleans after the Promises: Poverty, Citizenship, and the Search for the Great Society, Wesley G. Phelps has written an engaging and informative case study . . . [I] recommend this work to both academic and general readers interested in American civil rights history. . . . Phelps has provided a valuable and significant contribution to the scholarship on America's War on Poverty., Wesley G. Phelps's A People's War on Poverty is an important contribution to the growing historical literature about the antipoverty crusade at the local level. The focus is on Houston, one of the most understudied cities in the South, and on the grassroots activists who fought there. . . . In addition to being an important piece of historical scholarship, this well-written book will easily find its way into college classes on the War on Poverty, the long civil rights movement, and the rise of late twentieth-century conservatism. It also takes its place in the growing and stimulating literature on post- World War II Texas., "Wesley G. Phelps has written an engaging and informative case study . . . [I] recommend this work to both academic and general readers interested in American civil rights history. . . . Phelps has provided a valuable and significant contribution to the scholarship on America's War on Poverty."--M. Courtney Welch, Southwestern Historical Quarterly
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2014
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