"To challenge the status quo by any means": Community action and representational politics in 1960s Baltimore

War on Poverty: A New Grassroots History, 1964-1980

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 63-86

  Williams, Rhonda Y ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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References (60)

1. Lyndon Baines Johnson, "State of the Union Address", January 8, 1964, http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=26787.
2. Lyndon Baines Johnson, "Remarks at the University of Michigan", May 22, 1964, http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=26262.
3. "Local War on Poverty Needs Poor's Help", Baltimore Evening Sun (hereafter BES), June 1, 1965
4. Allen J. Matusow, The Unraveling of America: A History of Liberalism in the 1960s (New York: Harper and Row, 1984), 294.
5. Kim Moody, "City Council's 'War on the Poor, '" Jobs Now 1:2 (February 8, 1965)
6. Edgar Ewing to Richard Steiner, March 7, 1966
7. "Local War on Poverty Needs Poor's Help", BES, June 1, 1965
8. Jennifer Frost, "An Interracial Movement of the Poor": Community Organizing and the New Left in the 1960s (New York: New York University Press, 2001).
9. Ray Abrams Jr., "More to Be Added: Two Programs Completed in War on Poverty", Baltimore News Post, February 7, 1966.
10. Rea Murdock, "Poor Stay away from Center That Is Anxious to Help", Baltimore News American, November 21, 1966.
11. Carl Schoettler, "Voices for the Poor: They Know Poverty-They Live with It", BES, February 17, 1966;
12. Stephen J. Lynton, "Anti-Poverty 'Self-Help' at Issue", Baltimore Morning Sun (hereafter BMS), January 20, 1969.
13. Peter Marudas, "Dr. Humphrey Quits City Anti-Poverty Program Post", BES, June 29, 1965;
14. Charles V. Flowers, "Dr. Humphrey Quits as Director of City Anti-Poverty Setup", BMS, June 30, 1965.
15. Marudas, "Dr. Humphrey Quits"
16. Arnold R. Isaacs, "Family Integrity Viewed as Vital", Baltimore Sunday Sun, August 29, 1965;
17. David C. Goeller, "Labor Urged to Aid Poor", BMS, February 11, 1966;
18. Ray Abrams Jr., "War on Poverty-1st Anniversary: Nixon Criticism Dismays the CAC", Baltimore News Post, February 6, 1966.
19. Schoettler, "Voices for the Poor";
20. Lynton, "Anti-Poverty 'Self-Help. '"
21. Schoettler, "Voices for the Poor";
22. Lynton, "Anti-Poverty 'Self-Help. '"
23. James D. Dilts, "Organization Man for the Other America", BES, June 16, 1968.
24. Edgar Ewing to Richard Steiner, March 7, 1966
25. "Anti-Poverty Aims Noted", BMS, June 29, 1965.
26. "City Council Backs Plan of Self-Help", BMS, February 7, 1967;
27. "The Council Says Yes", BMS, February 7, 1967.
28. John E. Woodruff, "'Self-Help' Hiring Shift Is Proposed", BMS, February 2, 1967
29. John E. Woodruff, "Poverty Unit Calls Hiring Shift 'Insult, '" BMS, February 4, 1967
30. Daniel Drosdoff, "Anti-Poverty Staff Runs Rally", BMS, February 7, 1967;
31. Daniel Drosdoff, "Aid Cut-Off Is Claimed", BMS, February 5, 1967;
32. "City Council Backs Plan";
33. "Self-Help Given Green Light", BMS, September 1, 1967.
34. J. Linn Allen, "Poverty War Critic May Soon Get Chance to Work with CAA Project", Baltimore Afro-American (hereafter BAA), May 21, 1966.
35. "Self-Help Given Green Light"; "Chase Dropped from Self-Help", BAA, May 20, 1969;
36. Parren J. Mitchell, interview by author, February 26, 1997.
37. Parren J. Mitchell, interview by Nick Kotz, Series III: Equality Series, Kotz Papers.
38. Lynton, "Anti-Poverty 'Self-Help. '"
39. "Position Paper: The Community Action Commission", July 3, 1968
40. Activist Leaders Hit D'Alesandro", BAA, June 3, 1967;
41. Peter J. Koper, "Carter: 'The Residents Have Been Cheated, '" BAA, May 6, 1969.
42. Lynton, "Anti-Poverty 'Self-Help. '"
43. Letter to Thomas D'Alesandro III, October 9, 1968
44. "A Slap at the Mayor", BES, October 1, 1968.
45. Peter Koper, "City Council 'Conservatives' Want Poverty Program Control", BAA, March 18, 1969.
46. Stephen J. Lynton, "The New Policy at the Anti-Poverty Agency Is to Keep Afloat, but Don't Rock the boat", Sun, June 8, 1969.
47. Lynton, "New Policy"
48. "Self-Help Staff Protests, Faces caa Showdown Soon", BAA, February 22, 1969.
49. CAC Meeting, Minutes, February 26, 1969.
50. "Self-Help Staff Pickets after Loss of Autonomy", BAA, March 1, 1969;
51. "Self-Help Director Put 'on Leave', Advisor Quits", BAA, March 8, 1969.
52. "Self-Help Staff Pickets";
53. "Chase Dropped";
54. "Self-Help Director Put 'on Leave.'"
55. Stephen J. Lynton, "Poor Funds Cutback Is Threatened", Sun, January 1969
56. David E. Sloan, "Ellis Describes Attempts to Show Concern for Poor", BAA, December 2, 1969.
57. "Schaefer Backs Ivey for caa Director", Baltimore News American, August 16, 1970
58. Josephine Smith to Buzzy Hettleman, January 15, 1971
59. Mitchell, interview by Kotz.
60. Lenwood Ivey, interview (1973) by Nick Kotz, Series III: Equality Series, Kotz Papers.