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Storming Caesars Palace : how Black mothers fought their own war on poverty
- Title
- Storming Caesars Palace : how Black mothers fought their own war on poverty / Annelise Orleck.
- Author
- Orleck, Annelise.
- Publication
- Boston : Beacon Press, c2005.
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Details
- Description
- 368 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Women social reformers > Nevada > Las Vegas
- Welfare rights movement > Nevada > Las Vegas
- Duncan, Ruby
- Poor women > Nevada > Las Vegas > Political activity
- Women in community development > Nevada > Las Vegas
- Poor > Services for > Nevada > Las Vegas
- Welfare recipients > Nevada > Las Vegas > Political activity
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 316-352) and index.
- Contents
- From the cotton fields to the desert sands : living and leaving the delta life -- "The Mississippi of the west" : Jim Crow in Sin City -- "Bad luck and lousy people" : Black single mothers and the war on poverty -- "If it wasn't for you, I'd have shoes for my children" : welfare rights come to Las Vegas -- Storming Caesars Palace : poverty and power in Las Vegas -- Dragging Nevada kicking and screaming into the twentieth century -- "We can do it and do it better" : revitalizing a community from the bottom up -- Can welfare mothers do community economic development? : the trials and triumphs of Operation Life -- Maybe we were fighting history : the legacy of Operation Life.
- Call Number
- JFE 05-9301
- ISBN
- 0807050326 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2005000652
- OCLC
- 57432231
- vendorOCM57432231
- Author
- Orleck, Annelise.
- Title
- Storming Caesars Palace : how Black mothers fought their own war on poverty / Annelise Orleck.
- Imprint
- Boston : Beacon Press, c2005.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 316-352) and index.
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- Research Call Number
- JFE 05-9301Sc E 05-1224