People's War on Poverty - Phelps, Wesley G.

Investigates the on-the-ground implementation of President Lyndon Johnson˘€™s War on Poverty during the 1960s and 1970s. Wesley G. Phelps argues that the fluid interaction between federal policies, urban politics, and grassroots activists created a significant site of conflict over the meaning of American democracy and the rights of citizenship that historians have largely overlooked.