Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. ONE Poverty, Race, and Politics in Postwar Texas 13
6. TWO Postwar Liberalism, Civil Rights, and the Origins of the War on Poverty 25
7. THREE The War on Poverty and Texas Politics 39
8. FOUR Launching the War on Poverty in Texas 50
9. FIVE Making Maximum Participation Feasible Community Action in Urban Texas 65
10. SIX Race Conflict and the War on Poverty in Texas 84
11. SEVEN The War on Poverty and the Militants The OEO and the Chicano Movement 100
12. EIGHT A “Preventative Force”? Urban Violence, Black Power, and the OEO 121
13. NINE After LBJ Republican Ascendance and Grassroots Antipoverty Activism 136
14. CONCLUSION Texans and the “Long War on Poverty” 157
15. NOTES 165
16. BIBLIOGRAPHY 195
17. INDEX 205