| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 96.1

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Book Review

Carry It On: The War on Poverty and the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama, 1964-1972. By Susan Youngblood Ashmore. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2008. xviii, 398 pp. Cloth, $64.95, ISBN 978-0-8203-3007-5. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 978-0-8203-3051-8.)

The recent presidential victory of an African American who entered politics after working as a community organizer among black public housing residents in Chicago should remind historians of the link between economic and political freedom in modern America. In Carry It On, Susan Youngblood Ashmore has made one of the more ambitious attempts thus far to connect civil rights with the larger domestic agenda of the Lyndon B. Johnson administration. Ashmore's deeply researched account focuses on the Alabama black belt—the old plantation heartland where black poverty was most intense and white control most absolute. She finds that from 1965 onward, antipoverty and civil rights efforts in that region functioned as mutually reinforcing components of a grassroots assault on the political and economic foundations of black subordination.

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