Includes bibliographical references (pages 316-352) and index.
Contents
From the cotton fields to the desert sands : living and leaving the delta life -- "The Mississippi of the west" : Jim Crow in Sin City -- "Bad luck and lousy people" : Black single mothers and the war on poverty -- "If it wasn't for you, I'd have shoes for my children" : welfare rights come to Las Vegas -- Storming Caesars Palace : poverty and power in Las Vegas -- Dragging Nevada kicking and screaming into the twentieth century -- "We can do it and do it better" : reshaping a community from the bottom up -- Can welfare mothers do community economic development? : the trials and triumphs of Operation Life -- Maybe we were fighting history : the legacy of Operation Life.