Storming Caesars Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty

“I love this book because it talks about a fabulous advocate named Ruby Duncan and the people that she was working to organize. Annelise Orleck interviewed a lot of the women who were part of the Welfare Rights Movement in Las Vegas, Nevada in the late 1960s and early 1970s. What makes the book so exciting is that she gets into their stories about coming up from the South and coming to Las Vegas to try to get better jobs. They explained how their kids were so poor and hungry that they became absolutely desperate and angry at the same time. Many of them had applied for public assistance or welfare. That was barely keeping them alive, and they were struggling.” Read more...

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