Power to the Poor
Black-Brown Coalition and the Fight for Economic Justice, 1960-1974
Gordon K. Mantler
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 02/2013
Pages: 376
Subject: Social Science, History
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Print ISBN: 9.78E+12
eBook ISBN: 9781469608068
DESCRIPTION
Drawing on oral histories, archives, periodicals, and FBI surveillance files, Mantler paints a rich portrait of the campaign and the larger antipoverty work from which it emerged, including the labor activism of Cesar Chavez, opposition of Black and Chicano Power to state violence in Chicago and Denver, and advocacy for Mexican American land-grant rights in New Mexico. Ultimately, Mantler challenges readers to rethink the multiracial history of the long civil rights movement and the difficulty of sustaining political coalitions.
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