The politics of public housing Black women's struggles against urban inequality / [electronic resource] :
by Rhonda Y. Williams.
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
- xiii, 306 p. : ill.
- Transgressing boundaries .
- Transgressing boundaries. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-295) and index.
Creating "a little heaven for poor people": decent housing and respectable communities -- "A woman can understand": dissidence in 1940s' public housing -- Shifting landscapes in postwar Baltimore -- "When then came the change": the fight against disrepute -- "An awakening giant": the search for poor people's political power -- "Sunlight at early dawn": economic struggles, public housing and welfare rights.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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African American women--Maryland--Baltimore. Low-income housing--Maryland--Baltimore. Poor women--Political activity.--Maryland--Baltimore Poor women--Maryland--Baltimore. Public welfare--Maryland--Baltimore. Welfare recipients--Maryland--Baltimore. Women heads of households--Maryland--Baltimore.