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Examining three interconnected case studies, Tamar Carroll powerfully demonstrates the ability of grassroots community activism to bridge racial and cultural differences and effect social change. Drawing on a rich array of oral histories, archival records, newspapers, films, and photographs, Carroll shows how poor people transformed the antipoverty organisation Mobilization for Youth and shaped the subsequent War on Poverty.

AIDS activists --- Feminism --- Economic assistance, Domestic --- Political activists --- Emancipation of women --- Feminist movement --- Women --- Women's lib --- Women's liberation --- Women's liberation movement --- Women's movement --- Social movements --- Anti-feminism --- Anti-poverty programs --- Government economic assistance --- Economic policy --- National service --- Grants-in-aid --- History --- Emancipation --- ACT UP New York (Organization) --- Aids Coalition to Unleash Power/New York --- ACT UP/NY --- HIV/AIDS activists