The politics of public housing : Black women's struggles against urban inequality /
Williams, Rhonda Y.
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2004.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-295) and index.
Contents: Creating "a little heaven for poor people": decent housing and respectable communities -- "A woman can understand": dissidence in 1940s' public housing -- Shifting landscapes in postwar Baltimore -- "When then came the change": the fight against disrepute -- "An awakening giant": the search for poor people's political power -- "Sunlight at early dawn": economic struggles, public housing and welfare rights
Poor women
Poor women
African American women
Welfare recipients
Women heads of households
Low-income housing
Public welfare