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Everybody’s Problem: The War on Poverty in Eastern North Carolina (Southern Dissent)

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While many scholars have argued that disagreement and protest were probably the greatest ways for the poor to empower themselves all the way through the social change of the 1960s, Karen Hawkins demonstrates that moderate leadership and biracial cooperation were now and again just as forceful. Everybody’s Problem shows these values at play in the nation’s first rural-based Community Action Agency to receive federal funding as part of Lyndon B. Johnson’s War on Poverty.

Hawkins describes the founding of Craven Operation Progress in one of the crucial poorest regions of North Carolina. She discusses the philosophies and tactics of its directors and outlines the tensions that arose between local leadership and federal keep an eye on. The use of up to now untapped primary sources, including oral interviews with antipoverty workers and local citizens, records from the U.S. Place of business of Equal Employment Opportunity, and documents from the North Carolina Fund, Hawkins adds to the story of the factors that helped lower poverty rates and advance economic development all the way through the 1960s and beyond.

A volume in the series Southern Dissent, edited by Stanley Harrold and Randall M. Miller

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