Civil Rights Advocacy on Behalf of the Poor.

Cover -- Contents -- 1. Anti-Poverty as a Civil Rights Issue? -- 2. Assessing and Explaining Shifts in Organizational Priorities -- 3. Civil Rights Organizations and the War on Poverty -- 4. Civil Rights Organizations' Anti-Poverty Activities During the Late 1960s and Early 1970s -- 5. Explaining Priority Shifts During the 1960s -- 6. Explaining Priority Shifts During the Early 1970s -- 7. Recent Battles, Recent Challenges -- 8. Conclusions -- Appendix A: Archival Research and Coding -- Appendix B: Shifts in Organizational Attention to Anti-Poverty Policy -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes -- Notes to Figure Sources -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Acknowledgments.

In Civil Rights Advocacy on Behalf of the Poor, Catherine M. Paden examines five civil rights organizations and explores why they chose to represent the poor--specifically, low-income African Americans--during six legislative periods considering welfare reform.

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