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The Battle for Welfare Rights chronicles an American war on poverty fought first and foremost by poor people themselves. It tells the fascinating story of the National Welfare Rights Organization, the largest membership organization of low-income people in U.S. history. It sets that story in the context of its turbulent times, the 1960s and early 1970s, and shows how closely tied that story was to changes in mainstream politics, both nationally and locally in New York City.Welfare was one of the most hotly contested issues in postwar America. Bolstered by the accomplishments of the civil rights movement, NWRO members succeeded in focusing national attention on the needs of welfare recipients...
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Includes history of bills and resolutions.
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Explains how the Warren Commission had a political agenda dictated by the FBI causing it to reach its "lone assassin" conclusion and how the Commission's own documentation and other papers point to a likely conspiracy theory.
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