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Claiming Union Widowhood : race, respectability, and poverty in the post-emancipation South.

Authors : Brimmer, Brandi Clay, 1973-, author

Subjects: Military pensions -- United States -- Civil War, 1861-1865; Military pensions -- North Carolina; Widows -- North Carolina -- History -- 19th centuryUnited States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- PensionsUnited States. Army -- Minorities -- History -- 19th century

Availability: 1 Holdings

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Opportunity knocks : how hard work, community, and business can improve lives and end poverty.

Authors : Scott, Tim, 1965-, author

Subjects: African American legislators -- South Carolina -- Biography; BiographiesScott, Tim, 1965-; Scott, Tim, 1965- -- Political and social views

Availability: 6 Holdings

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Poverty and its relief in the antebellum South : perceptions and realities in three selected cities : Charleston, Nashville, and New Orleans.

Authors : Murray, Gail S.

Subjects: Poor -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History; Poor -- Tennessee -- Nashville -- History; Poor -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- HistoryCharleston (S.C.) -- Social conditions; Nashville (Tenn.) -- Social conditions; New Orleans (La.) -- Social conditions

Availability: 1 Holdings

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Rural poverty in three southern regions: Mississippi Delta, Ozarks, southeast Coastal Plain.

Authors : McCoy, John L., 1933-

Subjects: Rural poor -- Southern States

Availability: 1 Holdings

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Scratch beginnings : me, $25, and the search for the American Dream.

Authors : Shepard, Adam

Subjects: Homeless persons -- South Carolina -- Charleston; Social mobility; Shelters for the homeless -- South Carolina -- CharlestonCrisis Ministries (Charleston, S.C.)Shepard, Adam

Availability: 1 Holdings

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One good mama bone : a novel.

Authors : McClain, Bren; Monroe, Mary Alice

Subjects: Widows -- Fiction; Farmers -- Fiction; Rural conditions -- FictionSouth Carolina -- Fiction

Availability: 5 Holdings

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You want fries with that? : a white-collar burnout experiences life at minimum wage.

Authors : Alexander, Prioleau

Subjects: Minimum wage; Working poor; PovertyAlexander, Prioleau

Availability: 1 Holdings

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Union Heights : a problem of poverty.

Authors : South Carolina. Office of Planning.

Subjects: City planning -- South Carolina -- Charleston; Urban renewal -- South Carolina -- Charleston; Housing -- South Carolina -- CharlestonUnion Heights (Charleston, S.C.)

Availability: 1 Holdings

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Tempering the wind : the Southern response to urban poverty, 1850-1865.

Authors : Bellows, Barbara L.

Subjects: Poor -- Southern States -- History; Cities and towns -- Southern States -- HistoryCharleston (S.C.) -- History; Savannah (Ga.) -- HistoryUniversity of South Carolina -- Dissertations

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Down and out in early America.

Authors : Smith, Billy G. (Billy Gordon)

Subjects: Poverty -- United States -- History; Poor -- United States -- History; Marginality, Social -- United States -- HistoryUnited States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; NeuenglandCharleston Orphan House

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