War on Poverty : A New Grassroots History, 1964-1980

Cover -- Contents -- Introduction: The War on Poverty from the Grass Roots Up -- Part I. Battles over Community Action -- "This Government Is with Us": Lyndon Johnson and the Grassroots War on Poverty -- "To Challenge the Status Quo by Any Means": Community Action and Representational Politics in 1960s Baltimore -- Ideological Diversity and the Implementation of the War on Poverty in Houston -- Defining the Space of Participation in a Northern City: Tejanos and the War on Poverty in Milwaukee -- Part II. Poor Mothers and the War on Poverty -- Saving Babies in Memphis: The Politics of Race, Health, and Hunger during the War on Poverty -- "Someday . . . the Colored and White Will Stand Together": The War on Poverty, Black Power Politics, and Southern Women's Interracial Alliances -- "Parent Power": Evelina López Antonetty, the United Bronx Parents, and the War on Poverty -- Gender, Civil Rights Activism, and the War on Poverty in Los Angeles -- Part III. The War on Poverty, the Civil Rights Movement, and Southern Politics -- Poverty Wars in the Louisiana Delta: White Resistance, Black Power, and the Poorest Place in America -- Plantation Politics: The Tufts-Delta Health Center and Intraracial Class Conflict in Mississippi, 1965-1972 -- Fighting for the Child Development Group of Mississippi: Poor People, Local Politics, and the Complicated Legacy of Head Start -- Going Back to Selma: Organizing for Change in Dallas County after the March to Montgomery -- The War on Poverty and the Chicano Movement in Texas: Confronting "Tio Tomás" and the "Gringo Pseudoliberals" -- Part IV. What Do They Really Mean by Community Development? -- Looking Back to the City in the Hills: The Council of the Southern Mountains and a Longer View of the War on Poverty in the Appalachian South, 1913-1970.