How accurate is Duncan’s statement that “the poor mothers of the Westside owe their successes to George Miller’s ‘excesses’” (228)? In other words, what was the balance between the welfare mothers’ drive for welfare rights and outside policy decisions and the socio-political climate of the time?
Given Operation Life’s focus on self-determination and the restoration of pride in the black community (276, 308, 310), along with the organization’s building of significant political power on a local and national level, can Orleck’s story be seen as a manifestation of a distinctly feminist from of Black Power?
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