Mayor of Shantytown
Subtitle: The Life of Father James Renshaw Cox
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
ISBN-13: 9781476673394
Subjects: Catholic church, clergy, biography; Social reformers
Description: "Father James R. Cox was the voice of Pittsburgh's poor and jobless during the worst years of the Great Depression. Cox led one of the first mass marches on Washington, D.C., in 1932. He later ran for president on the Jobless Party ticket. Cox's reputation as a humanitarian was ruined after he barely escaped a mail fraud conviction"--