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Storming Caesars Palace how Black mothers fought their own war on poverty

Title: Storming Caesars Palace [electronic resource] : how Black mothers fought their own war on poverty / Annelise Orleck.
Author: Orleck, Annelise.
Publication: Boston : Beacon Press, c2005.

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Description

1 online resource (368 p.) : ill.

Uniform Title

Storming Caesars Palace (Online)

Alternative Title

Storming Caesars Palace (Online)

Subject

Duncan, Ruby
Welfare rights movement > Nevada > Las Vegas
Poor women > Political activity > Nevada > Las Vegas
Welfare recipients > Political activity > Nevada > Las Vegas
Women social reformers > Nevada > Las Vegas
Women in community development > Nevada > Las Vegas
Poor > Services for > Nevada > Las Vegas

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 316-352) and index.

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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" : reshaping 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.

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