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Author Levenstein, Lisa.

Title A movement without marches : African American women and the politics of poverty in postwar Philadelphia / Lisa Levenstein.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2009]
©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 300 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-284) and index.
Contents Introduction: The multidimensionality of poverty in a postwar city -- "Tired of being seconds" on ADC -- Hard choices at 1801 Vine -- Housing, not a home -- "Massive resistance" in the public schools -- A hospital of their own.
Summary In this bold interpretation of U.S. history, Lisa Levenstein reframes highly charged debates over the origins of chronic African American poverty and the social policies and political struggles that led to the postwar urban crisis. A Movement Without Marches follows poor black women as they traveled from some of Philadelphia's most impoverished neighborhoods into its welfare offices, courtrooms, public housing, schools, and hospitals, laying claim to an unprecedented array of government benefits and services. Levenstein uncovers the constraints that led women to public institutions, emphasizin.
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Subject African American women -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 20th century.
African American women.
Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Poor women -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 20th century.
Poor women.
African American women -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Social conditions.
African American women -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Biography.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject African Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Economic conditions -- 20th century.
African Americans.
Economic conditions.
Poverty -- Political aspects -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 20th century.
Poverty -- Political aspects.
Poverty.
Urban policy -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 20th century.
Urban policy.
Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Chronological Term 1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Biographies.
Other Form: Print version: Levenstein, Lisa. Movement without marches. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2009 9780807832721 0807832723 (DLC) 2008041130 (OCoLC)260254238
ISBN 9780807889985 (electronic book)
0807889989 (electronic book)
9780807832721 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0807832723 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780807859421 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0807859427 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
9781469605883 (electronic book)
1469605880 (electronic book)
0807871648
9780807871645