Children of the storm: black children and American child welfare / Andrew Billingsley, Howard University, Jeanne M. Giovannoni, University of California, Los Angeles.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Billingsley, Andrew.

Giovannoni, Jeanne M., author.

Contributor:

Dymally, Mervyn M., 1926-2012, writer of foreword.

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Child welfare--United States.

Child welfare.

United States.

Social work with African American children.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xvii pages, 1 unnumbered page, 263 pages, 7 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., [1972]

Contents:

Black Children and White Child Welfare

Part One. The Development of Child Welfare in America. Black Alternatives After the Civil War. Child Welfare in the Twentieth Century

Part Two. Early Efforts for Change Within Child Welfare, 1937-1944. Black Efforts for Black Children, 1953-1959. Extending Adoptive Services to Black Children, 1960-1970

Part Three. Patterns of Organizational Reform in Child Welfare. Beyond Placement: Social Policy and the Welfare of Black Children.

Notes:

"Cover Photograph by Maury Englander for the Children's Aid Society, New York."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-256) and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

ISBN:

0151173400

0155072714

OCLC:

393452