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Brutal Need : Lawyers and the Welfare Rights Movement, 1960-1973
Brutal Need Lawyers and the Welfare Rights Movement 19601973 Author:Martha Davis During the 1960s a new breed of "poverty lawyers"-in collaboration with welfare recipient activists-mounted a legal campaign to create a constitutional right to welfare. The collaboration worked significant changes in the social welfare system of the United States and in the scope of individual constitutional rights. In this first in-depth accou... more »nt, Martha F. Davis tells the behind-the-scenes story of the strategies, successes, failures, and frustrations of that important campaign.« less