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- Title
Food as a Civil Right: Hunger, Work, and Welfare in the South after the Civil Rights Act.
- Authors
Kornbluh, Felicia
- Abstract
The article explores the history of food systems, social welfare, gender, and the working-class in the U.S. South following passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The author analyzes the efforts of civil rights attorneys and activists such as Marian Wright and Henry Aronson of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Legal Defense and Educational Fund (NAACP LDEF). Emphasis is given to topics such as the Food Stamp program and African Americans in rural Mississippi.
- Subjects
SOUTHERN States; UNITED States; ECONOMIC history; CIVIL rights; FOOD supply; FOOD stamps; AFRICAN American social conditions; PUBLIC welfare; NAACP Legal Defense &; Educational Fund; HISTORY; TWENTIETH century; HISTORY of public welfare; HISTORY of civil rights
- Publication
Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas, 2015, Vol 12, Issue 1/2, p135
- ISSN
1547-6715
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1215/15476715-2837640