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Freedom Is Not Enough : The War on Poverty and the Civil Rights Movement in Texas / William S. Clayson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2010Description: 1 online resource (230 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780292793088
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.556109764
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  • HC107.T43 ǂb P63115 2010eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- ONE Poverty, Race, and Politics in Postwar Texas -- TWO Postwar Liberalism, Civil Rights, and the Origins of the War on Poverty -- THREE The War on Poverty and Texas Politics -- FOUR Launching the War on Poverty in Texas -- FIVE Making Maximum Participation Feasible Community Action in Urban Texas -- SIX Race Conflict and the War on Poverty in Texas -- SEVEN The War on Poverty and the Militants The OEO and the Chicano Movement -- EIGHT A “Preventative Force”? Urban Violence, Black Power, and the OEO -- NINE After LBJ Republican Ascendance and Grassroots Antipoverty Activism -- CONCLUSION Texans and the “Long War on Poverty” -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
Summary: Led by the Office of Economic Opportunity, Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty reflected the president's belief that, just as the civil rights movement and federal law tore down legalized segregation, progressive government and grassroots activism could eradicate poverty in the United States. Yet few have attempted to evaluate the relationship between the OEO and the freedom struggles of the 1960s. Focusing on the unique situation presented by Texas, Freedom Is Not Enough examines how the War on Poverty manifested itself in a state marked by racial division and diversity—and by endemic poverty. Though the War on Poverty did not eradicate destitution in the United States, the history of the effort provides a unique window to examine the politics of race and social justice in the 1960s. William S. Clayson traces the rise and fall of postwar liberalism in the Lone Star State against a backdrop of dissent among Chicano militants and black nationalists who rejected Johnson's brand of liberalism. The conservative backlash that followed is another result of the dramatic political shifts revealed in the history of the OEO, completing this study of a unique facet in Texas's historical identity.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- ONE Poverty, Race, and Politics in Postwar Texas -- TWO Postwar Liberalism, Civil Rights, and the Origins of the War on Poverty -- THREE The War on Poverty and Texas Politics -- FOUR Launching the War on Poverty in Texas -- FIVE Making Maximum Participation Feasible Community Action in Urban Texas -- SIX Race Conflict and the War on Poverty in Texas -- SEVEN The War on Poverty and the Militants The OEO and the Chicano Movement -- EIGHT A “Preventative Force”? Urban Violence, Black Power, and the OEO -- NINE After LBJ Republican Ascendance and Grassroots Antipoverty Activism -- CONCLUSION Texans and the “Long War on Poverty” -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

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Led by the Office of Economic Opportunity, Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty reflected the president's belief that, just as the civil rights movement and federal law tore down legalized segregation, progressive government and grassroots activism could eradicate poverty in the United States. Yet few have attempted to evaluate the relationship between the OEO and the freedom struggles of the 1960s. Focusing on the unique situation presented by Texas, Freedom Is Not Enough examines how the War on Poverty manifested itself in a state marked by racial division and diversity—and by endemic poverty. Though the War on Poverty did not eradicate destitution in the United States, the history of the effort provides a unique window to examine the politics of race and social justice in the 1960s. William S. Clayson traces the rise and fall of postwar liberalism in the Lone Star State against a backdrop of dissent among Chicano militants and black nationalists who rejected Johnson's brand of liberalism. The conservative backlash that followed is another result of the dramatic political shifts revealed in the history of the OEO, completing this study of a unique facet in Texas's historical identity.

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