The War On Poverty
November 9, 2007
9:00 AM
Ivy Holliman, Professor Guian McKee, Rhonda Williams, Tom Jackson
Urban Politics & the War on Poverty
9:00 am – 10:45 am
"'We do not have large areas of poverty & discontent': Urban Renewal, Unrest, & Antipoverty Programs in Atlanta, Georgia" — Ivy Holliman, University of Georgia
"'This Government is With Us': Lyndon Johnson and the Grassroots War on Poverty" — Guian A. McKee, University of Virginia
"Local Implementation of Antipoverty Programs in Houston in the 1960s" — Wesley Phelps, Rice University
"'We Had Better Listen': Community Action, Poor People, and Municipal Politics in Baltimore" — Rhonda Y. Williams, Case Western Reserve University
Moderator: Tom Jackson, University of North Carolina, Greenboro
November 9, 2007
11:00 AM
Robert Bauman, Lisa Hazirjian
Movement Politics & the War on Poverty
11:00 am – 12:30 pm
"Opal Jones and Francisca Flores: Gender, Civil Rights Activism and the War on Poverty in Los Angeles" — Robert Bauman, Washington State University Tri-Cities
"The War on Poverty and the Origins of the Chicano Movement in Texas: Confronting 'Tio Tomás' and the 'Gringo Pseudo-liberals" — William Clayson, College of Southern Nevada
"Black Women, Community Health, and Racial Justice: The Memphis Antipoverty Movement" — Laurie B. Green, University of Texas at Austin
Moderator: Lisa Gayle Hazirjian, Carnegie Mellon University
November 9, 2007
2:00 PM
Susan Ashmore, Kent Germany
The War on Poverty in the Deep South
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
"Going Back to Selma: Organizing for Change in Dallas County after the March to Montgomery" — Susan Youngblood Ashmore, Oxford College of Emory University
"Poverty Wars in the Louisiana Delta" — Kent B. Germany, University of South Carolina
"Fighting for the Child Development Group of Mississippi: Poor People, Local Politics, and the Complicated Legacy of Head Start" — Amy Jordan, Hampshire College
Moderator: Benjamin Houston
November 9, 2007
6:00 PM
Lisa Hazirjian
November 10, 2007
12:00 AM
Lisa Hazirjian, Professor Guian McKee
November 10, 2007
9:00 AM
Tom Kiffmeyer, Marc Rodriguez, Professor Brian Balogh
Community, Space, & Identity in the War on Poverty
9:00 am – 10:30 am
"No More 'Lo, the Poor Indian': The War on Poverty in Mississippi and Oklahoma" — Daniel M. Cobb, Miami University (Ohio)
"The Cities in the Hills: Urban and Rural Space and the War on Poverty" — Tom Kiffmeyer, Morehead State University
"Defining the Space of Participation: Tejanos and the Struggle for the War on Poverty in Milwaukee?" — Marc S. Rodriguez, University of Notre Dame
Moderator: Brian Balogh, University of Virginia
November 10, 2007
10:45 AM
