Battle for Bed-Stuy

by Michael Woodsworth

Book Overview

Half a century after the launch of the War on Poverty, its complex origins remain obscure. Battle for Bed-Stuy reinterprets President Lyndon Johnson's much-debated crusade from the perspective of its foot soldiers in New York City, showing how 1960s antipoverty programs were rooted in a rich local tradition of grassroots activism and policy experiments.

Bedford-Stuyvesant, a Brooklyn neighborhood housing 400,000 mostly black, mostly...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674545060
• ISBN13: 9780674545069
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: Harvard
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.5"