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Investigates the on-the-ground implementation of President Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty during the 1960s and 1970s. Wesley G. Phelps argues that the fluid interaction between federal policies, urban politics, and grassroots activists created a significant site of conflict over the meaning of American democracy and the rights of citizenship that historians have largely overlooked.

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      Publisher: University of Georgia Press
      Publication Date: 30/03/2014
      ISBN13: 9780820346717, 978-0820346717
      ISBN10: 0820346713

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      Book Synopsis
      Investigates the on-the-ground implementation of President Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty during the 1960s and 1970s. Wesley G. Phelps argues that the fluid interaction between federal policies, urban politics, and grassroots activists created a significant site of conflict over the meaning of American democracy and the rights of citizenship that historians have largely overlooked.

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