Chapter Nine: "We Refused to Lay Down Our Spears".

Chapter Nine of the book "Black Political Organizations in the Post-Civil Rights Era," edited by Ollie A. Johnson III and Karin L. Stanford is presented. It outlines and analyzes the history of Welfare Rights Movement from 1966-1996 in the U.S. It examines the persistence of the right to welfare and discusses the three concepts of the Welfare Rights Movement.