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From its 1790 founding until 1974, Washington, D.C.--capital of
"the land of the free--lacked democratically elected city
leadership. Fed up with governance dictated by white stakeholders,
federal officials, and unelected representatives, local D.C.
activists catalyzed a new phase of the fight for home rule. Amid
the upheavals of the 1960s, they gave expression to the
frustrations of black residents and wrestled for control of their
city. Bringing together histories of the carceral and welfare
states, as well as the civil rights and Black Power movements,
Lauren Elizabeth Pearlman narrates this struggle for
self-determination in the nation's capital. She captures the
transition from black protest to black political power under the
Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon administrations and against the
backdrop of local battles over the War on Poverty and the War on
Crime. Through intense clashes over funds and programming,
Washington residents pushed for greater participatory democracy and
community control. However, the anticrime apparatus built by the
Johnson and Nixon administrations curbed efforts to achieve true
home rule. As Pearlman reveals, this conflict laid the foundation
for the next fifty years of D.C. governance, connecting issues of
civil rights, law and order, and urban renewal.
From its 1790 founding until 1974, Washington, D.C.--capital of
"the land of the free--lacked democratically elected city
leadership. Fed up with governance dictated by white stakeholders,
federal officials, and unelected representatives, local D.C.
activists catalyzed a new phase of the fight for home rule. Amid
the upheavals of the 1960s, they gave expression to the
frustrations of black residents and wrestled for control of their
city. Bringing together histories of the carceral and welfare
states, as well as the civil rights and Black Power movements,
Lauren Elizabeth Pearlman narrates this struggle for
self-determination in the nation's capital. She captures the
transition from black protest to black political power under the
Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon administrations and against the
backdrop of local battles over the War on Poverty and the War on
Crime. Through intense clashes over funds and programming,
Washington residents pushed for greater participatory democracy and
community control. However, the anticrime apparatus built by the
Johnson and Nixon administrations curbed efforts to achieve true
home rule. As Pearlman reveals, this conflict laid the foundation
for the next fifty years of D.C. governance, connecting issues of
civil rights, law and order, and urban renewal.
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