Storming Caesars Palace : how Black mothers fought their own war on poverty /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Orleck, Annelise.
Imprint:	Boston : Beacon Press, c2005.
Description:	368 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Duncan, Ruby. Duncan, Ruby. Welfare rights movement -- Nevada -- Las Vegas. Poor women -- Nevada -- Las Vegas -- Political activity. Welfare recipients -- Nevada -- Las Vegas -- Political activity. Women social reformers -- Nevada -- Las Vegas. Women in community development -- Nevada -- Las Vegas. Poor -- Services for -- Nevada -- Las Vegas. Poor -- Services for. Poor women -- Political activity. Welfare rights movement. Women in community development. Women social reformers. Nevada -- Las Vegas.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5749611

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ISBN:	0807050326 (cloth : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 316-352) and index.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Chapter 1. From the Cotton Fields to the Desert Sands: Living and Leaving the Delta Life
Chapter 2. "The Mississippi of the West": Jim Crow in Sin City
Chapter 3. "Bad Luck and Lousy People": Black Single Mothers and the War on Poverty
Chapter 4. "If It Wasn't for You, I'd Have Shoes for My Children": Welfare Rights Come to Las Vegas
Chapter 5. Storming Caesars Palace: Poverty and Power in Las Vegas
Chapter 6. Dragging Nevada Kicking and Screaming Into the Twentieth Century
Chapter 7. "We Can Do It and Do It Better": Revitalizing a Community from the Bottom Up
Chapter 8. Can Welfare Mothers Do Community Economic Development?: The Triumphs and Trials of Operation Life
Chapter 9. Maybe We Were Fighting History: The Legacy of Operation Life
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index

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