Brutal Need Lawyers and the Welfare Rights Movement, 1960-73 Martha F. Davis

Format:
Paperback
Publication date:
12 Oct 1995
ISBN:
9780300064247
Dimensions:
196 pages: 235 x 155 x 12mm
Illustrations:
notes, bibliography

During the 1960s a group of lawyers - in collaboration with welfare recipient activists - mounted a legal campaign to create a constitutional right to welfare. This book tells the behind-the-scenes story of that campaign - the strategies, successes, failures and frustrations.