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

by Martha F. Davis

• ISBN13: 9780300064247
• ISBN10: 0300064241
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 1995-09-27
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Summary

'Brutal Need is a magnificent book. It combines sophisticated analysis of legal principles defining the rights of the poor, a rich social history of the organization of poor people in the 1960s, and gripping biographies of the leading participants in the often neglected social movement. It is a pleasure to read this lucid book. Davis provides insight, even to a person who participated in the events she describes.'-Sylvia Law, New York University School of Law

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	1	(5)
Chapter 1 Welfare and "The Man,"	6	(4)
Chapter 2 Poor Law and Poverty Lawyers	10	(12)
Chapter 3 The Welfare Law Guru	22	(18)
Chapter 4 The Movement	40	(16)
Chapter 5 Southern Strategy	56	(14)
Chapter 6 The Middle Years	70	(11)
Chapter 7 Life, Liberty, Property, and Welfare	81	(18)
Chapter 8 The Road to Washington	99	(20)
Chapter 9 The Impasse	119	(14)
Chapter 10 A Different America	133	(9)
Chapter 11 Open Questions	142	(5)
List of Individuals Interviewed	147	(1)
Note on Archival Sources	148	(2)
List of Abbreviations	150	(3)
Notes	153	(28)
Index	181