Battle for Bed Stuy

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Battle for Bed Stuy
Author : Michael Woodsworth
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Language : English
Release Date : 06 June 2016
ISBN : 9780674545069
Pages : 425 pages
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Battle for Bed Stuy by Michael Woodsworth Book PDF Summary

In the 1960s Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood was labeled America’s largest ghetto. But its brownstones housed a coterie of black professionals intent on bringing order and hope to the community. In telling their story Michael Woodsworth reinterprets the War on Poverty by revealing its roots in local activism and policy experiments.

Battle for Bed Stuy

In the 1960s Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood was labeled America’s largest ghetto. But its brownstones housed a coterie of black professionals intent on bringing order and hope to the community. In telling their story Michael Woodsworth reinterprets the War on Poverty by revealing its roots in local activism and

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