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RETHINKING THE WELFARE RIGHTS
MOVEMENT

Lasting from the early 1960s to the mid 1970s, the welfare rights movement crossed political boundaries, fighting simultaneously for womens rights, economic justice, and black womens empowerment through welfare assistance. The welfare rights movement was an interracial protest movement of poor women receiving Aid to Families with Dependent Children who demanded reform of welfare policy, greater respect and dignity, and financial support to properly raise and care for their children. In short, they pushed for a right to welfare. Its members challenged stereotypes, engaged in Congressional debates, and developed a sophisticated political analysis that combined race, class, gender, and culture, crafting a distinctive, feminist, anti-racist politics rooted in their experiences as poor women of color.

Rethinking the Welfare Rights Movement provides a short, accessible overview of this important social and political movement, highlighting key events and figures, the movements strengths and weaknesses, and how it intersected with other social and political movements of the time, as well as its lasting effect on the country. It is perfect for anyone wanting to obtain an introduction to the welfare rights movement of the twentieth century.

Premilla Nadasen is Associate Professor of African American History at Queens College, City University of New York.

American Social and Political Movements
of the Twentieth Century

Series Editor: Heather Ann Thompson

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By Simon Hall

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By Daryl Joji Maeda

Rethinking the Welfare Rights Movement

By Premilla Nadasen

RETHINKING THE
WELFARE RIGHTS
MOVEMENT

Premilla Nadasen

First published 2012

by Routledge

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Simultaneously published in the UK

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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Nadasen, Premilla.
Rethinking the welfare rights movement / by Premilla Nadasen.
p. cm. (American social and political movements of the twentieth century)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. National Welfare Rights Organization (U.S.) 2. Welfare
rights movementUnited StatesHistory20th century. 3. Public
welfareUnited StatesHistory20th century. 4. Welfare
recipientsPolitical activityUnited StatesHistory20th century
5. PoorPolitical activityUnited StatesHistory20th century.
6. United StatesSocial policy. I. Title.
HV91.N123 2011
362.556140973dc23

ISBN: 978-0-415-80085-3 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-0-415-80086-0 (pbk)

ISBN: 978-0-203-13804-5 (ebk)

Printed and bound in the United States of America on acid-free paper by Walsworth Publishing Company, Marceline, MO.

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EDITORS SERIES INTRODUCTION

Welcome to the American Social and Political Movements of the Twentieth Century series at Routledge. This collection of works by top historians from around the nation and world introduces students to the myriad movements that came together in the United States during the twentieth century to expand democracy, to reshape the political economy, and to increase social justice.

Each book in this series explores a particular movements origins, its central goals, its leading as well as grassroots figures, its actions as well as ideas, and its most important accomplishments as well as serious missteps.

With this series of concise yet synthetic overviews and reassessments, students not only will gain a richer understanding of the many human rights and civil liberties that they take for granted today, but they will also newly appreciate how recent, how deeply contested, and thus how inherently fragile, are these same elements of American citizenship.

Heather Ann Thompson
Temple University

ABBREVIATIONS

ACLU	American Civil Liberties Union
ADC	Aid to Dependent Children
AFDC	Aid to Families with Dependent Children
ANC	Aid to Needy Children
BWR	Baltimore Welfare Rights Organization
CAP	Community Action Program
CARASA	Committee for Abortion Rights and Against Sterilization Abuse
CORE	Congress of Racial Equality
CUFAW	Citizens United for Adequate Welfare
FAP	Family Assistance Plan
ICPP	Inner City Protestant Parish
IFCO	Interreligious Foundation for Community Organizations
JOIN	Jobs or Income Now
MAW	Mothers for Adequate Welfare
OSCAW	Ohio Steering Committee for Adequate Welfare
NAACP	National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
P/RAC	Poverty/Rights Action Center
NCC	National Coordinating Committee
NCSC	National Council of Senior Citizens
SCLC	Southern Christian Leadership Organization
SDS	Students for a Democratic Society
TANF	Temporary Assistance to Needy Families
WSO	West Side Organization
WIN	Work Incentive Programme
WRDA	Welfare Recipients Demand Action

INTRODUCTION

On June 30, 1966, thirty-five people, mostly women and children, arrived in Columbus, Ohio, weary but jubilant, after a ten-day walk from Cleveland. Their 150-mile Walk for Decent Welfare drew attention to the inadequacy of welfare benefits in Ohio. When the marchers left Cleveland they were 100 strong and several hundred supporters joined them as they passed through towns and cities along their journey. Indicative of the eras anti-welfare hostility, bystanders heckled and harassed the marchers, calling them bums and chanting work, work, work! One night a cross was burned nearby as they slept.

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