The Dual Agenda: Race and Social Welfare Policies of Civil Rights Organizations

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Columbia University Press, 1997 - Political Science - 335 pages

This book chronicles the complex connections between race and class that have marked American social reform since the New Deal, revealing an aspect of the civil rights struggle that that has been too long overlooked or obscured: the struggle for policies to expand social and economic welfare for blacks and whites alike.

 

Contents

XI
10
Fighting for Fair and Full Employment
43
FOUR
72
A Change in Strategy
90
Organized Labor
109
The 1960s
122
EIGHT Pursuing a Liberal Social Welfare Agenda
146
The 1970s
175
The 1980s
208
The 1990s
236
The Future
258
NOTES
269
INDEX
317
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