Power to the Poor: Black-Brown Coalition and the Fight for Economic Justice, 1960-1974 (Justice, Power, and Politics)
"The often-overlooked partnership between Mexican American and African American activists of the 1960s receives much-deserved attention in this important contribution to the history of the civil rights era. . . . Recommended. All academic levels/libraries."--Choice"Mantler offers an impressive examination of an understudied topic: antipoverty movements.  He successfully weaves multiple histories, based on a sometimes staggering array of sources, into a highly readable analysis of social movement organizing."--Journal of American History"Gordon Mantler turns conventional wisdom on its head. . . . An important, innovative addition to the growing literature on racial coalitions during the civil rights era."--Law and History Review"Intriguing. . . . Mantler's book makes important contributions to our understanding of the long War on Poverty, the Poor People's Campaign, and the relationship between multiracial coalitions and identity politics."--Register of the Kentucky Historical Society"Mantler offers an impressive examination of an understudied topic: antipoverty movements."--Journal of American History"This fascinating and richly researched book offers an important corrective to assumptions that identity politics and multiracial coalitions are necessarily mutually exclusive."--American Historical Review"[A] richly textured and deeply researched study."--Southwestern Historical Quarterly"Mantler shows the way (the campaign) was a step forward in the construction of multiracial coalitions, and also as a way to draw attention to a number of the group's causes."--A New Left Blog, Top Ten Books of 2013"[Reflects] the way that this particular aspect of the civil rights movement was shaped both by the distinctive groups and individuals who were involved and by its timing in relation to the historical dynamics of twentieth-century American party politics and foreign policy, specifically Democratic Party liberalism and the trajectory of the Vietnam War."--North Carolina Historical Review