Where the War on Poverty and Black Power Meet: A Right to the City Perspective on American Urban Politics in the 1960s
This paper looks at the U.S. American federal War on Poverty programs as a progressive attempt at rejuvenating local communities with citizen participation in the post-Civil Rights era. The anti-poverty measures set out to enhance the political empowerment of impoverished communities of color that b...
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| Language: | English |
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European Association for American Studies
2015-12-01
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| Series: | European Journal of American Studies |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/ejas/11251 |