Battle for Bed-Stuy: The Long War on Poverty in New York City

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.

• | Author: Michael Woodsworth
• | Publisher: Harvard University Press
• | Publication Date: June 06, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 424 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0674545060
• | ISBN-13: 9780674545069