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Battle for Bed-Stuy : the long war on poverty in New York City by Woodsworth, Michael is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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In the 1960s Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood was labeled America’s largest ghetto. But its brownstones housed a coterie of black professionals intent on bringing order and hope to the community. In telling their story Michael Woodsworth reinterprets the War on Poverty by revealing its roots in local activism and policy experiments.
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Woodsworth, Michael
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Department of Sanskrit & Indian Studies
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780674970403
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Political Science, Social Science
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