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Poor Atlanta - Poverty, Race, and the Limits of Sunbelt Development (Paperback)
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Poor Atlanta - Poverty, Race, and the Limits of Sunbelt Development (Paperback)
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Poor Atlanta looks at the poor people's campaigns in Atlanta in the
1960s and 1970s, which operated in relationship to Sunbelt city-
building efforts. With these efforts, city leaders aimed to prevent
urban violence, staunch disinvestment, check white flight, and
amplify Atlanta's importance as a business and transportation hub.
As urban leaders promoted Forward Atlanta, a program to, in Mayor
Ivan Allen Jr.'s words, "sell the city like a product," poor
families insisted that their lives and living conditions, too,
should improve. While not always operating within public awareness,
antipoverty campaigns among the poor presented a regular and
sometimes strident critique of inequality and Atlanta's uneven
urban development. With Poor Atlanta, LeeAnn B. Lands demonstrates
that, while eclipsed by the Black freedom movement, antipoverty
organizing (including direct action campaigns, legal actions,
lobbying, and other forms of activism) occurred with regularity
from 1964 through 1976. Her analysis is one of the few citywide
studies of antipoverty organizing in late twentieth-century
America.
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