"The story of the revolutionary Black women welfare organizers of Las Vegas who spearheaded an evergreen, radical revisioning of American economic justice"--
"The story of the revolutionary Black women welfare organizers of Las Vegas who spearheaded an evergreen, radical revisioning of American economic justice"--
Annelise Orleck is a professor at Dartmouth College where she focuses on history, American radicalism, race studies and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies. She is the author of several books, including: Rethinking American Women’s Activism; Storming Caesars Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty; and Common Sense and a Little Fire: Women and Working Class Politics in the U.S. She lives in Thetford Center, Vermont.
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Introduction to the 2023 Edition Introduction CHAPTER 1 From the Cotton Fields to the Desert Sands: Living and Leaving the Delta Life CHAPTER 2 “The Mississippi of the West”: Jim Crow in Sin City CHAPTER 3 “Bad Luck and Lousy People”: Black Single Mothers and the War on Poverty CHAPTER 4 “If It Wasn’t for You, I’d Have Shoes for My Children”: Welfare Rights Come to Las Vegas CHAPTER 5 Storming Caesars Palace: Poverty and Power in Las Vegas CHAPTER 6 Dragging Nevada Kicking and Screaming into the Twentieth Century CHAPTER 7 “We Can Do It and Do It Better”: Revitalizing a Community from the Bottom Up CHAPTER 8 Can Welfare Mothers Do Community Economic Development?: The Triumphs and Trials of Operation Life CHAPTER 9 Maybe We Were Fighting History: The Legacy of Operation Life Epilogue—A New Era for Las Vegas Acknowledgments Notes Index
Introduction to the 2023 Edition Introduction CHAPTER 1 From the Cotton Fields to the Desert Sands: Living and Leaving the Delta Life CHAPTER 2 “The Mississippi of the West”: Jim Crow in Sin City CHAPTER 3 “Bad Luck and Lousy People”: Black Single Mothers and the War on Poverty CHAPTER 4 “If It Wasn’t for You, I’d Have Shoes for My Children”: Welfare Rights Come to Las Vegas CHAPTER 5 Storming Caesars Palace: Poverty and Power in Las Vegas CHAPTER 6 Dragging Nevada Kicking and Screaming into the Twentieth Century CHAPTER 7 “We Can Do It and Do It Better”: Revitalizing a Community from the Bottom Up CHAPTER 8 Can Welfare Mothers Do Community Economic Development?: The Triumphs and Trials of Operation Life CHAPTER 9 Maybe We Were Fighting History: The Legacy of Operation Life Epilogue—A New Era for Las Vegas Acknowledgments Notes Index
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