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New Orleans after the promises, poverty, citizenship, and the search for the Great Society, Kent B. Germany

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New Orleans after the promises, poverty, citizenship, and the search for the Great Society, Kent B. Germany
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-429) and index
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government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
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index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
New Orleans after the promises
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
71800543
Responsibility statement
Kent B. Germany
Sub title
poverty, citizenship, and the search for the Great Society
Table Of Contents
Introduction: Something new for the South? -- A European-African-Caribbean-American-Southern city -- Establishing the early war on poverty -- Building community action -- Challenging the establishment and the color line -- Making better and happier citizens -- Defusing the southern powder keg -- Making workers and jobs -- Making groceries -- Making a model New Orleans -- The thugs united and the politics of manhood -- Women, welfare, and political mobilization -- Acronyms, liberalism, and electoral politics, 1969-1971 -- Panthers, snipers, and the limits of liberalism -- Conclusion: Prelude to Katrina
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