Everybody's Problem - The War on Poverty in Eastern North Carolina

Informationen zum Autor Karen M. Hawkins teaches American history at Voyager Academy High School in North Carolina. Klappentext Through her case study of Craven Operation Progress, Karen Hawkins challenges a number of assumptions regarding the Community Action Agencies (CAAs), central among them being that middle-class whites on CAA boards were either uninterested or unable to meet the needs of poor citizens and that biracial agreement and cooperation was essentially impossible. Drawing from untapped primary sources, Hawkins finds some successes in interracial cooperation. Hawkins contends that it was not only liberal action that led to economic and social change in Eastern North Carolina, but also moderate compromise and open mindedness. Zusammenfassung While many scholars have argued that confrontation and protest were the most effective ways for the poor to empower themselves during the social change of the 1960s! Karen Hawkins demonstrates that moderate! local leadership and biracial cooperation were sometimes just as forceful.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Karen M Hawkins, Karen M. Hawkins
• Verlag: University Press Of Florida
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 09.11.2017
• EAN: 9780813054971
• ISBN: 978-0-8130-5497-1
• Seiten: 392
• Abmessung: 165 mm x 241 mm x 32 mm
• Serie: Southern Dissent
• Thema: Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges