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001 ocn794490967
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008 120502s2009 lau ob 001 0 eng d
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100 1 $aShepard, Kris.
245 10 $aRationing justice :$bpoverty lawyers and poor people in the deep South /$cKris Shepard.
250 $aLouisiana pbk. ed.
260 $aBaton Rouge :$bLouisiana State University Press,$c2009.
300 $a1 online resource (x, 396 pages).
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
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490 1 $aMaking the modern South
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aCOVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; Prologue; 1. A "New Breed of Lawyer"; 2. The Lawyers' War on Poverty, 1965-1970; 3. The Lean Years, 1970-1975; 4. "Equal Access to Justice": LSC and the Expansion of Legal Services in the Deep South, 1975-1981; 5. Low-Income Families, Poverty Lawyers, and the Regulatory State; 6. Low-Income Communities, Poverty Lawyers, and Racial Reconstruction; 7. Poverty Law, Politics, and the Rationing of Justice, 1981-1996; APPENDIX: Political Support for the Legal Services Corporation; ABBREVIATIONS; NOTES; SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K
505 8 $aLM; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
520 $aEstablished in 1964, the federal Legal Services Program (later, Corporation) served a vast group of Americans desperately in need of legal counsel: the poor. In Rationing Justice, Kris Shepard looks at this pioneering program's effect on the Deep South, as the poor made tangible gains in cases involving federal, state, and local social programs, low-income housing, consumer rights, domestic relations, and civil rights. While poverty lawyers, Shepard reveals, did not by themselves create a legal revolution in the South, they did force southern politicians, policy makers, businessmen, and law en.
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830 0 $aMaking the modern South.
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