Native American contributions to egalitarianism -- Prologue: social context and overview of solutions -- On cannibals, Michel de Montaigne -- Curious dialogues, Louis Armand de Lom D'Arce Lahontan -- Distresses of a frontier man, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur -- Agrarian justice, Thomas Paine -- The line between us, the Council of Indians at Miami Rapids -- Epilogue: outcomes -- The early republic and antebellum America: moral cures, poorhouses, and structural solutions -- Prologue: social context and overview of solutions -- Third annual report, Boston Society for the Moral and Religious Instruction of the Poor -- Report of the Committee on the Pauper Laws of this commonwealth, Quincy Committee address of the working people of New Castle County, Delaware, Wilson Pierson and George McFarlane -- Existing evils and their remedy, Frances Wright -- Rights of man to property, Thomas Skidmore -- "Sleep not longer, o Choctaws and Chickasaws," Tecumseh -- Epilogue: outcomes -- After the Civil War: the rise of labor and scientific charity -- Prologue: social context and overview of solutions -- The Freedmen's Bureau, W.E.B. du Bois -- "It is not right for me to live in poverty," Sitting Bull (Tatanka Yotanka) -- The army of the discontented, Terence Powderly -- Woman wants bread, not the ballot, Susan B. Anthony -- "We seek liberty for the slave," Albert R. Parsons -- Charity organization and the Buffalo plan, S. Humphrey Gurteen -- Epilogue: outcomes -- The (un)progressive era -- Prologue: social context and overview of solutions -- Public activities and investigations, Jane Addams -- Child welfare standards: a test of democracy, Julia Lathrop -- Industrial education for the negro, Booker T. Washington -- Coxey and his aims, Henry Vincent -- The social elements of the Indian problem, Arthur Parker (Gawaso Wanneh) -- The Socialist Party appeal, Eugene Debs -- Epilogue: outcomes -- The great depression and the new deal era -- Prologue: social context and overview of solutions -- The importance of the preservation of self-help and of the responsibilities of individual -- Generosity as opposed to deteriorating effects of government appropriations, Herbert Hoover -- Houses of hospitality, Dorothy Day -- Works, Harry Hopkins -- Redistribution of wealth, Huey Long -- Immediate epic, Upton Sinclair -- Social security, Frances Perkins -- Workers' unemployment, old-age, and social insurance bill, Ernest Lundeen -- Epilogue: outcomes -- The war on poverty -- Prologue: social context and overview of solutions -- Where do we go from here? Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr -- The ballot or the bullet, Malcolm X -- "We give you a hand up, not a handout," Sargent Shriver -- Welfare as a women's issue, Johnnie Tillman -- "The poorest of the poor and weakest of the weak," Cesar Chavez -- The Alcatraz proclamation to the great white father and his people, Indians of all nations -- Epilogue: outcomes -- Dismantling the new deal and war on poverty: contemporary solutions -- Prologue: social context and overview of solutions -- Eliminating hunger in America, Physician Task Force on Hunger in America -- Making homelessness go away: politics and policy, Doug Timmer, Stanley Eitzen, and Kathryn Talley -- Living wage: live action, Robert Pollin -- Labor leaders and allies call for repeal of Taft Hartley Act, Tony Mazzocchi -- Bruce J. Klipple, Kay McVay, Ralph Nader, and Thomas Geoghegan -- "We demand fair trade, not free trade," Brian McWilliams -- The hidden agenda: from group-specific to universal programs of reform -- William Julius Wilson -- America's debt to blacks, Randall Robinson -- "Faith-based charities work daily miracles," George W. Bush -- Building assets to fight poverty, Michael Sherradan -- "We know the creation stories of our people," Mary Dann -- Epilogue: outcomes -- Index
