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Everybody's Problem

The War on Poverty in Eastern North Carolina

AvKaren M. Hawkins

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PDF, Engelska, 2017

1 471 kr

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“Offers a new interpretation of the war on poverty by demonstrating the centrality of moderate local leadership (both white and black) in launching and operating antipoverty programs.”—Marisa Chappell, author of The War on Welfare: Family, Poverty, and Politics in Modern America“Hawkins has done a remarkable job of mining the sources and reconstructing the reality of what was going on in eastern North Carolina.”—Frank Stricker, author of Why America Lost the War on Poverty—And How to Win It

Hawkins describes the founding of Craven Operation Progress in one of the poorest regions of North Carolina. She discusses the philosophies and tactics of its directors and outlines the tensions that arose between local leadership and federal control. Using previously untapped primary sources, including oral interviews with antipoverty workers and local citizens, records from the U.S. Office of Equal Employment Opportunity, and documents from the North Carolina Fund, Hawkins adds to the story of the factors that helped lower poverty rates and advance economic development during the 1960s and beyond.

A volume in the series Southern Dissent, edited by Stanley Harrold and Randall M. Miller

Everybody's Problem

The War on Poverty in Eastern North Carolina

AvKaren M. Hawkins

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

981 kr

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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. Everybody’s Problem shows these values at play in the nation’s first rural Community Action Agency to receive federal funding as a part of Lyndon B. Johnson’s War on Poverty.Karen Hawkins describes the founding of Craven Operation Progress in North Carolina, discusses the philosophies and tactics of its directors, and outlines the tensions that arose between local leadership and federal control. Using previously untapped primary sources including oral interviews with antipoverty workers and local citizens, records from the U.S. Office of Equal Employment Opportunity, and documents from the North Carolina Fund, Hawkins adds to the story of the factors that helped lower poverty rates and advance economic development during the 1960s and beyond.

Cooperating with the Enemy

Civil Rights Leaders and the Reagan Administration

AvKaren M. Hawkins

Inbunden, Engelska, 2027

1 839 kr

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In modern American politics, perhaps no two groups have been considered so opposed to one another in terms of philosophy and priorities as much as the Reagan Administration and civil rights leaders. And yet both were far more engaged with one another than either the public understood at the time or the current historical narrative suggests. Cooperating with the Enemy: Civil Rights Leaders and the Reagan Administration will be the first book to explore this dynamic relationship and its outcomes. While it varied depending on the context, both groups spent a considerable amount of time behind-the-scenes seeking to work with one another despite their often conflicting priorities and political views. The degree of dialogue, outreach, and influence between the two groups was also more mutually beneficial than has been acknowledged. All of this is not to say that the feats came easy or without struggle. Nor is it to suggest that both sides were always victorious. This book will argue that despite the limits, there are valuable lessons that we can learn from this complex relationship between groups that often appeared to be enemies from the inside and the outside. In these times of hyper-partisanship and political divide, there is a great need to find lessons on the importance of effectively communicating and cooperating to create positive social change. If civil rights leaders and the Reagan Administration were able to find ways to make it happen perhaps there is hope more of us today can, too.

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