Description: Democracy’s Capital : Black Political Power in Washington, . 1960s-1970s, Paperback by Pearlman, Lauren, ISBN 1469653907, ISBN-13 9781469653907, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US From its 1790 founding until 1974, Washington, of "the land of the free--lacked democratically elected city leadership. Fed up with governance dictated by white stakeholders, federal officials, and unelected representatives, local . activists catalyzed a new phase of the fight for home rule. Amid the upheavals of the 1960s, they gave expression to the frustrations of black residents and wrestled for control of their city. Bringing together histories of the carceral and welfare states, as well as the civil rights and Black Power movements, Lauren Pearlman narrates this struggle for self-determination in the nations capital. She captures the transition from black protest to black political power under the Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon administrations and against the backdrop of local battles over the War on Poverty and the War on Crime.
Through intense clashes over funds and programming, Washington residents pushed for greater participatory democracy and community control. However, the anticrime apparatus built by the Johnson and Nixon administrations curbed efforts to achieve true home rule. As Pearlman reveals, this conflict laid the foundation for the next fifty years of . governance, connecting issues of civil rights, law and order, and urban renewal.
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Book Title: Democracy's Capital : Black Political Power in Washington, D.C. , 1960s-1970s
Number of Pages: 352 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Item Height: 1 in
Publication Year: 2019
Topic: United States / 20th Century, Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), Sociology / Urban, African American
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Social Science, History
Item Weight: 19.7 Oz
Author: Lauren Pearlman
Item Length: 9.1 in
Item Width: 6.1 in
Book Series: Justice, Power, and Politics Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback