| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.3

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Book Review

"An Interracial Movement of the Poor": Community Organizing and the New Left in the 1960s. By Jennifer Frost. (New York: New York University Press, 2001. xii, 257 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-8147-2697-6.)

Jennifer Frost's "An Interracial Movement of the Poor" adds a new perspective to the literature on the Economic Research and Action Project (ERAP), an experiment in community organizing of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). As part of the white New Left student movement of the 1960s, ERAP activists established thirteen organizing projects in low- income inner-city neighborhoods, most notably in Chicago, Newark, Cleveland, and Boston. As the subtitle emphasizes, this book views the ERAP projects through the prism of community organizing and uses that perspective to inform readers about both ERAP's past and its contemporary significance. "An Interracial Movement of the Poor" is well grounded in SDS archival sources, and Frost conducted nearly fifty interviews with former SDS and ERAP participants. But she also uses a rich social science literature on social movements and community practice to extend prior historical work on ERAP and link it to contemporary strategic debates around feminist and identity politics, politicizing service delivery, and welfare rights work. . . .

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