Book Detail

Carry It on: The War on Poverty and the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama, 1964-1972

ISBN: 9780820330518

Contributors: Ashmore, Susan Youngblood (Author)

Publisher: University of Georgia Press, 2008

Binding: Paperback (Readerbound Available)

Retail: $34.95

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Description

An in-depth study of how the local struggle for equality in Alabama fared in the wake of new federal laws: the Civil Rights Act, the Economic Opportunity Act, and the Voting Rights Act. Ashmore looks closely at the interactions among local activists, elected officials, businesspeople, landowners, and bureaucrats.

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