The Dual Agenda: Race and Social Welfare Policies of Civil Rights Organizations - Paperback

by Dona Cooper Hamilton (Author), Charles Hamilton (Author)

This book chronicles the complex connections between race and class that have marked American social reform since the New Deal, revealing an aspect of the civil rights struggle that that has been too long overlooked or obscured: the struggle for policies to expand social and economic welfare for blacks and whites alike.

Author Biography

Dona Cooper Hamilton is associate professor of social work at Herbert H. Lehman College, City University of New York.

Charles V. Hamilton is Wallace Sayre Professor of Government at Columbia University.