Everybody's problem : the war on poverty in eastern North Carolina /

Everybody's problem : the war on poverty in eastern North Carolina /

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Author / Creator:Hawkins, Karen M., author.
Imprint:Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2017]
Description:xi, 376 pages ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Series:Southern dissent
Southern dissent.
Subject:
Craven Operation Progress, Inc.
Craven Operation Progress, Inc.
Poor -- North Carolina.
Public welfare -- North Carolina.
Economic assistance -- North Carolina.
Community development -- North Carolina.
Community development.
Economic assistance.
Poor.
Public welfare.
Race relations.
Social conditions.
Craven County (N.C.) -- Social conditions.
North Carolina -- Race relations.
North Carolina.
North Carolina -- Craven County.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11551640
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Other authors / contributors:Harrold, Stanley, author of foreword.
Miller, Randall M., author of foreword.
ISBN:9780813054971
0813054974
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:Through her case study of Craven Operation Progress, Karen Hawkins challenges a number of assumptions regarding the Community Action Agencies (CAAs), central among them being that middle-class whites on CAA boards were either uninterested or unable to meet the needs of poor citizens and that biracial agreement and cooperation was essentially impossible. Drawing from untapped primary sources, Hawkins finds some successes in interracial cooperation. Hawkins contends that it was not only liberal action that led to economic and social change in Eastern North Carolina, but also moderate compromise and open mindedness.

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