War on Poverty: A New Grassroots History, 1964-1980

Contributors

CONTRIBUTORS SUSAN YOUNGBLOOD ASHMORE is associate professor of history at Oxford College of Emory University. She is the author of Carry It On: The War on Poverty and the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama, 1964–1972 (University of Georgia Press, 2008). ADINA BACK was a member of the editorial collective of the Radical History Review and an assistant professor of history at Brooklyn College. She was the author of numerous essays on the movement by African American, Jewish, and Puerto Rican women in New York City to desegregate public schools. She passed away in 2008. ROBERT BAUMAN is associate professor of history at Washington State University, Tri-Cities. He is the author of Race and the War on Poverty: From Watts to East L.A. (University of Oklahoma Press, 2008). WILLIAM CLAYSON is professor and lead faculty in history at the College of Southern Nevada. He is the author of Freedom Is Not Enough: The War on Poverty and the Civil Rights Movement in Texas (University of Texas Press, 2010). DANIEL M. COBB is associate professor in the Department of American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and has served as assistant director of the D’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian History in Chicago. He is the coeditor of Beyond Red Power: American Indian Politics and Activism since 1900 (School for Advanced Research Press, 2007) and author of Native Activism in Cold War America: The Struggle for Sovereignty (University Press of Kansas Press, 2008). GRETA DE JONG is associate professor of African American history at the University of Nevada at Reno. She is the author of A Different Day: African American Struggles for Justice in Rural Louisiana, 1900–1970 (University of North Carolina [464] Contributors Press, 2002) and Invisible Enemy: The African American Freedom Struggle after 1965 (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010). KENT B. GERMANY is associate professor of history at the University of South Carolina . He is the author of New Orleans after the Promises: Poverty, Citizenship, and the Search for the Great Society (University of Georgia Press, 2007), and coeditor of The Kennedy Assassination and the Transfer of Power: The Presidential Recordings, Lyndon B. Johnson, vol. 3, January 1964 (Norton 2005), and Toward the Great Society : The Presidential Recordings, Lyndon B. Johnson, vol. 4, February-March 8, 1964 (Norton, 2007). LAURIE B. GREEN teaches in the history department and the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Battling the Plantation Mentality: Memphis and the Black Freedom Struggle (University of North Carolina Press, 2007), winner of the 2008 Philip Taft Labor History Book Award. CHRISTINA GREENE is associate professor in the Afro-American Studies Department at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. She is the author of Our Separate Ways: Women and the Black Freedom Movement in Durham, North Carolina (University of North Carolina Press, 2005), winner of the Julia Cherry Spruill Award for the best book in southern women’s history (awarded by the Southern Association of Women Historians). AMY JORDAN is associate professor of African American history at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. She is the author of From Rural Rehabilitation to Welfare Rights: Rural Relief, Land Ownership and Welfare Rights Activism in Mississippi (forthcoming). THOMAS KIFFMEYER is associate professor of history at Morehead State University in Morehead, Kentucky. He is the author of Reformers to Radicals: Appalachian Volunteers and the War on Poverty (University Press of Kentucky, 2008). GUIAN A. MCKEE is associate professor at the Miller Center for Public Affairs at the University of Virginia. He is the author of The Problem of Jobs: Liberalism, Race, and Deindustrialization in Philadelphia (University of Chicago Press, 2008) and Lyndon Contributors [465] Johnson and the War on Poverty: How Policymakers Try to Deliver on Social Promises (Johns Hopkins University Press, forthcoming). ANNELISE ORLECK is professor of history at Dartmouth College. She is the author of Storming Caesars Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty (Beacon, 2005); The Soviet Jewish Americans (Greenwood, 1999) and Common Sense and a Little Fire: Women and Working Class Politics in the United States (University of North Carolina Press, 1995) and coeditor of The Politics of Motherhood: Activist Voices from Left to Right (University Press of New England, 1997). WESLEY G. PHELPS received his PhD in history at Rice University. His dissertation is “A Grassroots War on Poverty: Community Action and Urban Politics in...