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Impossible Democracy: The Unlikely Success of the War on Poverty Community Action Programs

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Explores how community action programs used federal funds to sponsor social protest–based community reform.

Honorable Mention, 2008 Gustavus Myers Book Award, presented by the Gustavus Myers Center for Human Rights in North America

Impossible Democracy challenges the conventional wisdom that the War on Poverty failed, by exploring the unlikely success of its community action programs. Using two projects in Manhattan that were influential precursors of community action programs-the Mobilizati...