A Movement Without Marches: African American Women and the Politics of Poverty in Postwar Philadelphia

by Lisa Levenstein

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807871648
• ISBN13: 9780807871645
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"