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The segregated origins of social security : African Americans and the welfare state
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- Creator
- Mary Poole
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2006]
- ©2006
- Physical Details
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- xi, 258 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780807830246, 9798890879646, 0807877220, 9780807877227, 9780807856888, 0807830240, 0807856886
- OCLC
- ocm62533804, ocn476237321
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [233]-249) and index.
- So now Mr. President, we are looking for something : African Americans, the Social Security Act, and the Great Depression -- The not-so-solid South : southern Democrats in Congress -- Colorblind public policy : the staff of the Committee on Economic Security -- Shaky ground : Black and interracial organizations -- Gender and the white united front : the women of the federal Children's Bureau -- Conclusion : those old discriminatory practices
Subjects
- African Americans -- Economic conditions -- 20th century.
- African Americans -- Government policy -- History -- 20th century.
- African Americans -- Segregation -- History -- 20th century.
- Social security -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- Welfare state -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- Racism -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- Depressions -- 1929 -- United States.
- New Deal, 1933-1939.
- United States -- Social policy.
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945.