Storming Caesars Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War On Poverty - Hardcover

Orleck, Annelise

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0807050326 ISBN 13: 9780807050323

Publisher: Beacon Pr, 2005

Synopsis

The author explains how a group of welfare mothers living in Las Vegas mounted the most successful anti-poverty campaign in the country, organizing in the early 1970s to gain a medical center, daycare center, job training, and senior citizen housing for the poor.

About this title

About the Author:

Annelise Orleck is associate professor of history and women's and gender studies at Dartmouth College. She is the author of Common Sense and a Little Fire and Soviet Jewish Americans and coeditor of The Politics of Motherhood. Orleck lives in Thetford Center, Vermont, with her partner and their two children.

Review:

I cannot tell you how much I enjoyed and was inspired by the work Annelise Orleck has done to tell this amazing story. It is wonderful to have the history of the organization, of course, but the women’s stories that are knit into the creation of that organization, the stubborn sense of hope and accomplishment she documents, the complex and far reaching impact of the organizing efforts that each woman undertakes for her own reasons - it is like a truly great novel, the revelation of a world unknown. (Dorothy Allison, author of Bastard Out of Carolina)

About this edition

• Publisher: Beacon Pr
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0807050326
• ISBN 13: 9780807050323
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 368