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Author Poole, Mary, 1960-

Title The segregated origins of social security [electronic resource] : African Americans and the welfare state / Mary Poole.

Imprint Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2006.

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Description xi, 258 p. : ill.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-249) and index.
Contents So now Mr. President, we are looking for something : African Americans, the Social Security Act, and the Great Depression -- The not-so-solid South : southern Democrats in Congress -- Colorblind public policy : the staff of the Committee on Economic Security -- Shaky ground : Black and interracial organizations -- Gender and the white united front : the women of the federal Children's Bureau -- Conclusion : those old discriminatory practices.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject African Americans -- Economic conditions -- 20th century.
African Americans -- Government policy -- History -- 20th century.
African Americans -- Segregation -- History -- 20th century.
Social security -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Race discrimination -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Welfare state -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Racism -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Depressions -- 1929 -- United States.
New Deal, 1933-1939.
United States -- Social policy.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0807830240 (cloth : alk. paper)
0807856886 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780807830246
9780807856888

 
    
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