Title Storming Caesars Palace : how Black mothers fought their own war on poverty / Annelise Orleck.

Publication Info.	Boston : Beacon Press, [2005]
	©2005

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Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Moore Stacks	HV99.L37 O75 2005	Available	---

Description	368 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography	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.
Subject	Duncan, Ruby.
	Duncan, Ruby.
	Welfare rights movement -- Nevada -- Las Vegas.
	Welfare rights movement.
	Nevada -- Las Vegas.
	Poor women -- Political activity -- Nevada -- Las Vegas.
	Poor women -- Political activity.
	Poor women.
	Welfare recipients -- Political activity -- Nevada -- Las Vegas.
	Welfare recipients.
	Political participation.
	Nevada.
	Women social reformers -- Nevada -- Las Vegas.
	Women social reformers.
	Women in community development -- Nevada -- Las Vegas.
	Women in community development.
	Poor -- Services for -- Nevada -- Las Vegas.
	Poor -- Services for.
ISBN	0807050326 cloth alkaline paper