TY  - BOOK
AU  - Woodsworth,Michael
TI  - Battle for Bed-Stuy: The Long War on Poverty in New York City 
SN  - 9780674970403
U1  - 362.5/561097471 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Cambridge, MA : 
PB  - Harvard University Press, 
KW  - African American women
KW  - Political activity
KW  - New York (State)
KW  - New York
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Poverty
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - History
KW  - Urban policy
KW  - HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674970403
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674970403
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674970403/original
ER  -