Title:
Storming Caesars Palace : how Black mothers fought their own war on poverty / Annelise Orleck.
Author:
Orleck, Annelise.
Publication Information:
Boston : Beacon Press, c2005.
Call Number:
HV99.L37 O75 2005
Electronic Access:
Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip056/2005000652.html
ISBN:
9780807050323
9780807050316
Physical Description:
368 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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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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