Power to the Poor by Gordon K Mantler

Power to the Poor by Gordon K Mantler

The Poor People's Campaign of 1968 has long been overshadowed by the assassination of its architect, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and the political turmoil of that year. In a major reinterpretation of civil rights and Chicano movement history, Gordon K. Mantler demonstrates how King's unfinished crusade became the era's most high-profile attempt at multiracial collaboration and sheds light on the interdependent relationship between racial identity and political coalition among African Americans and Mexican Americans. Mantler argues that while the fight against poverty held great potential for black-brown cooperation, such efforts also exposed the complex dynamics between the nation's two largest minority groups. Drawing on oral histories, archives, periodicals, and FBI surveillance files, Mantler paints a rich portrait of the campaign and the larger anti-poverty work from which it emerged, including the labour activism of Cesar Chavez, opposition of Black and Chicano Power to state violence in Chicago and Denver, and advocacy for Mexican American land-grant rights in New Mexico. Ultimately, Mantler challenges readers to rethink the multiracial history of the long civil rights movement and the difficulty of sustaining political coalitions.

Gordon K. Mantler is a lecturing fellow and associate director in the Thompson Writing Program at Duke University, USA.

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ISBN 13	9780807838518
ISBN 10	0807838519
Title	Power to the Poor
Author	Gordon K Mantler
Series	Justice Power And Politics
Condition	Unavailable
Publisher	The University of North Carolina Press
Year published	2013-02-28
Number of pages	376
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