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The Great Society's Poor law ; a new approach to poverty by Levitan, Sar A.

Subjects: “…United States. Office of Economic Opportunity. n 80067159…”

Democracy without decency : good citizenship and the war on poverty by Epstein, William M., 1944-

Table of Contents: “…The War on Poverty: Programs of the Office of Economic Opportunity -- 3. Other War on Poverty Programs -- 4. …”
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Launching the war on poverty : an oral history by Gillette, Michael L.

Table of Contents: “…Camelot confronts the culture of poverty -- The war on poverty task force -- Creating the community action program -- Employment versus poverty -- Rural programs -- The enactment of poverty legislation -- The office of economic opportunity: "the most action in town" -- The job corps -- The community action program -- An early success: Project Head Start -- Advocates for the poor : VISTA and the legal services program -- Delegated programs -- Challenges to Head Start -- The job corps under siege -- "Keeping the trash in one pile": legislative battles -- OEO's struggle to endure -- Epilogue and assessments.…”
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Poor Jews : an American Awakening. by Levine, Naomi

Table of Contents: “…THE JEWISH POOR AND THE WAR AGAINST POVERTY Why Jews Get Less: A Study of Jewish Participation in the Poverty Program ; Memorandum of Inspection Division Office of Economic Opportunity ; Re: Jewish Poverty ; 4. ON ENDING JEWISH POVERTY ; The Jewish Hospital and the Jewish Community.…”
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The struggle in Black and brown : African American and Mexican American relations during the civil rights era

Table of Contents: “…Behnken -- Complicating the beloved community: the student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the National Farm Workers Association / Lauren Araiza -- The Neighborhood Adult Participation Project: Black-brown strife in the war on poverty in Los Angeles / Robert Bauman -- "Mexican versus negro approaches" to the war on poverty: Black-brown competition and the Office of Economic Opportunity in Texas / William Clayson -- Cesar and Martin, March '68 / Jorge Mariscal -- Black, brown, and poor: civil rights and the making of the Chicano movement / Gordon Mantler -- Brown-eyed soul: popular music and cultural politics in Los Angeles / Luis Alvarez and Daniel Widener -- Raising a neighborhood: informal networks between African American and Mexican American women in South Central Los Angeles / Abigail Rosas -- A new day in Babylon: African American and Mexican American relations at the dawn of the millennium / Matthew C. …”
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Projecting race : postwar America, civil rights and documentary film by Charbonneau, Stephen

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Community self-determination : American Indian education in Chicago, 1952-2006 by Laukaitis, John J.

Table of Contents: “…Augustine's and the Office of Economic Opportunity; St. Augustine's Center and Community Self-Determination…”
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Freedom is not enough : the war on poverty and the civil rights movement in Texas by Clayson, William S. (William Stephen), 1970-

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