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Article: The Segregated Origins of Social Security: African Americans and the Welfare State.(Book review)
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- Journal of Social History
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- September 22, 2007
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The Segregated Origins of Social Security: African Americans and the Welfare State. By Mary Poole (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. xi +258 pp. $59.95, cloth; $22.50, paper).
This is a long overdue book: since completing my dissertation thirty years ago, I have wanted to have a full description and explanation of The Segregated Origins of Social Security. Mary Poole offers public historians, social historians, social scientists, social workers, and students of policymaking a detailed reading of primary sources by those men and women instrumental in shaping and enacting the first four programs of the 1935 Social Security Act--Grants to States ...