A Movement Without Marches: African American Women and the Politics of Poverty in Postwar Philadelphia (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture)

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Lisa Levenstein reframes highly charged debates over the origins of chronic African American poverty and the social policies and political struggles that led to the postwar urban crisis. A Movement Without Marches follows poor black women as they traveled from a few of Philadelphia’s so much impoverished neighborhoods into its welfare offices, courtrooms, public housing, schools, and hospitals, laying claim to an unprecedented array of government benefits and products and services. With these resources came new constraints, as public officials continuously responded to girls’s efforts by limiting benefits and making an attempt to regulate their personal lives. Scathing public narratives about women’s “dependency” and their children’s “illegitimacy” placed African American women and public institutions on the center of the growing opposition to black migration and civil rights in northern U.S. cities. Countering stereotypes that experience long plagued public debate, Levenstein offers a new paradigm for figuring out postwar U.S. history.

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