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Table of Contents:

• Introduction. The Multidimensionality of Poverty in a Postwar City
• 1. "Tired of Being Seconds" on ADC
• 2. Hard Choices at 1801 Vine
• 3. Housing, Not a Home
• 4. "Massive Resistance" in the Public Schools
• 5. A Hospital of Their Own
• Appendix. Note on First-Person Sources.

Author/Creator:

Levenstein, Lisa

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

A movement without marches: African American women and the politics of poverty in postwar Philadelphia [by Levenstein, L.]

Related Series:

John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture

Subjects:

African American women — Pennsylvania — Philadelphia — History — 20th century

Poor women — Pennsylvania — Philadelphia — History — 20th century

African American women — Pennsylvania — Philadelphia — Social conditions — 20th century

African American women — Pennsylvania — Philadelphia — Biography

African Americans — Pennsylvania — Philadelphia — Economic conditions — 20th century

Poverty — Political aspects — Pennsylvania — Philadelphia — History — 20th century

Urban policy — Pennsylvania — Philadelphia — History — 20th century

Philadelphia (Pa.) — Race relations — History — 20th century

Philadelphia (Pa.) — Politics and government — 20th century

Philadelphia (Pa.) — Social conditions — 20th century

1900-1999

Poor women

African American women — Social conditions

African Americans — Economic conditions

African Americans

Poverty — Political aspects

Poverty

Urban policy

Race relations

Politics and government

Social conditions

African American women

Pennsylvania — Philadelphia

United States

Genres:

Biographies

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-284) and index.

Physical Description:

xvi, 300 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

Call Numbers:

F158.9.N4 L485 2009

ISBNs:

9780807832721 (cloth, alk. paper)
0807832723 (cloth, alk. paper)
9780807859421 (pbk., alk. paper)
0807859427 (pbk., alk. paper)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2008041130

OCLC Numbers:

260254238