Brutal Need: Lawyers and the Welfare Rights Movement, 1960-1973 by Martha F. Davis

Brutal Need: Lawyers and the Welfare Rights Movement, 1960-1973

Martha F. Davis

200 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction politics challenging informative medium-paced
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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 o...

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