A People'S War On Poverty: Urban Politics And Grassroots Activists In Houston

Phelps investigates the on-the-ground implementation of President Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty during the 1960s and 1970s and argues that the fluid interaction between federal policies, urban politics, and grassroots activists created a significant site of conflict over the meaning of American democracy.

• | Author: Wesley G. Phelps
• | Publisher: University Of Georgia Press
• | Publication Date: Mar 15, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 264 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0820346705
• | ISBN-13: 9780820346700