New Orleans after the promises [electronic resource] : poverty, citizenship, and the search for the Great Society / Kent B. Germany.
By: Germany, Kent B.
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BookPublisher: Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, c2007Description: xii, 460 p., [10] p. of plates : ill., map.Subject(s): African Americans -- Civil rights -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 20th century | Poverty -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 20th century | Citizenship -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 20th century | Political participation -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 20th century | Liberalism -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 20th century | New Orleans (La.) -- Politics and government -- 20th century | New Orleans (La.) -- Social policy | New Orleans (La.) -- Economic conditions -- 20th century | New Orleans (La.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 976.3/35064 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view | Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | URL | Copy number | Status | Date due | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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