An Interracial Movement of the Poor: Community Organizing and the New Left in the 1960s

by Jennifer Frost

Book Overview

Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2002
Community organizing became an integral part of the activist repertoire of the New Left in the 1960s. Students for a Democratic Society, the organization that came to be seen as synonymous with the white New Left, began community organizing in 1963, hoping to build an interracial movement of the poor through which to demand social and political change. SDS sought nothing less than to abolish poverty and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814726976
• ISBN13: 9780814726976
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 257 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.3"