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1 Online-Ressource
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Illustrationen, Karten
ISBN:
9780820363271
Content:
Early Beginnings -- Economic Opportunity Atlanta -- Vine City -- The Poor Folks Movement -- Welfare and Workplace -- Housing Crisis -- Lobbying for Welfare -- Conclusion.
Content:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Early Beginnings -- Chapter 2. Economic Opportunity Atlanta -- Chapter 3. Vine City -- Chapter 4. The Poor Folks Movement -- Chapter 5. Welfare and Workplace -- Chapter 6. Housing Crisis -- Chapter 7. Lobbying for Welfare -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z
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"Poor Atlanta looks at the poor people's campaigns in Atlanta in the 1960s and 1970s, which operated in relationship to Sunbelt city- building efforts. With these efforts, city leaders aimed to prevent urban violence, staunch disinvestment, check white flight, and amplify Atlanta's importance as a business and transportation hub. As urban leaders promoted Forward Atlanta, a program to, in Mayor Ivan Allen Jr.'s words, "sell the city like a product," poor families insisted that their lives and living conditions, too, should improve. While not always operating within public awareness, antipoverty campaigns among the poor presented a regular and sometimes strident critique of inequality and Atlanta's uneven urban development. With Poor Atlanta, LeeAnn B. Lands demonstrates that, while eclipsed by the Black freedom movement, antipoverty organizing (including direct action campaigns, legal actions, lobbying, and other forms of activism) occurred with regularity from 1964 through 1976. Her analysis is one of the few citywide studies of antipoverty organizing in late twentieth-century America"--
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Description based upon print version of record
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0820363278
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0820363286
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780820363288
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780820363295
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Lands, LeeAnn, 1967 - Poor Atlanta Athens : The University of Georgia Press, 2023 ISBN 9780820363288
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780820363295
Language:
English
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