| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.3

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Book Review

Rationing Justice: Poverty Lawyers and Poor People in the Deep South. By Kris Shepard. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007. xii, 396 pp. $55.00, ISBN 978-0-8071-3207-4.)

In Rationing Justice Kris Shepard tells the story of one of the most important legacies of President Lyndon B. Johnson's War on Poverty: access to legal representation for low-income people in the Deep South, under the auspices of regional poverty law offices funded by the federal Legal Services Program, created in 1964 and later reorganized as the Legal Services Corporation (LSC). Of course, the struggle for poor people's justice was part of the broader civil and legal rights revolution spurred by generations of grassroots, judicial, and policy activism. The reach of the LSC was and remains nationwide. Shepard focuses on federally subsidized legal services in the Deep South, the region where poverty and racism have historically been most entrenched. He is examining this topic during a period when the commitment to equal justice in public policy has been nearly eviscerated, along with the limited New Deal era entitlement to welfare that was officially ended in 1996.

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