Everybody's Problem - The War on Poverty in Eastern North Carolina (Hardcover)

While many scholars have argued that confrontation and protest were the most effective ways for the poor to empower themselves during the social change of the 1960s, Karen Hawkins demonstrates that moderate, local leadership and biracial cooperation were sometimes just as forceful. Everybody's Problem shows these values at play in the nation's first rural Community Action Agency to receive federal funding as a part of Lyndon B. Johnson's War on Poverty. Karen Hawkins describes the founding of Craven Operation Progress in North Carolina, discusses the philosophies and tactics of its directors, and outlines the tensions that arose between local leadership and federal control. Using previously untapped primary sources including oral interviews with antipoverty workers and local citizens, records from the U.S. Office of Equal Employment Opportunity, and documents from the North Carolina Fund, Hawkins adds to the story of the factors that helped lower poverty rates and advance economic development during the 1960s and beyond.

General

Imprint:	University Press of Florida
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Southern Dissent
Release date:	December 2017
Authors:	Karen M Hawkins
Dimensions:	235 x 156 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	352
ISBN-13:	978-0-8130-5497-1
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Poverty Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Unemployment Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Social classes > General Books > History > American history > General
LSN:	0-8130-5497-4
Barcode:	9780813054971

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