Movement Without Marches: African American Women and the Politics of Poverty in Postwar Philadelphia Essays & Narratives and one of the few

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Five years after a suspicious fire killed his ornithologist mother

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Movement Without Marches: African American Women and the Politics of Poverty in Postwar Philadelphia Essays & Narratives and one of the fewLisa Levenstein reframes highly charged debates over the origins of chronic African American poverty and the social policies and political struggles that led to the postwar urban crisis. A Movement Without Marches follows poor black women as they traveled from some of Philadelphia's most impoverished neighborhoods into its welfare offices, courtrooms, public housing, schools, and hospitals, laying claim to an unprecedented array of government benefits