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Battle for Bed-Stuy : The Long War on Poverty in New York City / Michael Woodsworth.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (424 p.) : 24 halftonesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674970403
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.5/561097471 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: The Senator and the Secretary -- 1. A Suitcase Full of Knives -- 2. Mobilizing the Forces -- 3. From the Club house to the White House -- 4. War and Rumors of War -- 5. Maximum Feasible Bureaucratization -- 6. The Power to Act -- 7. Whose Community, What Action? -- 8. From the Ground Up -- Epilogue: Gloom and Boom -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Summary: In the 1960s Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood was labeled America’s largest ghetto. But its brownstones housed a coterie of black professionals intent on bringing order and hope to the community. In telling their story Michael Woodsworth reinterprets the War on Poverty by revealing its roots in local activism and policy experiments.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: The Senator and the Secretary -- 1. A Suitcase Full of Knives -- 2. Mobilizing the Forces -- 3. From the Club house to the White House -- 4. War and Rumors of War -- 5. Maximum Feasible Bureaucratization -- 6. The Power to Act -- 7. Whose Community, What Action? -- 8. From the Ground Up -- Epilogue: Gloom and Boom -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index

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In the 1960s Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood was labeled America’s largest ghetto. But its brownstones housed a coterie of black professionals intent on bringing order and hope to the community. In telling their story Michael Woodsworth reinterprets the War on Poverty by revealing its roots in local activism and policy experiments.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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