Homeless: Poverty and Place in Urban America

Lecturer

Ella Howard, Armstrong State University

Files

Media Type

Article

Date of Lecture

3-27-2014

Keywords

Armstrong State University, A Moveable Feast, Georgia Historical Society

Description of Lecture

During the twentieth century, many homeless Americans lived on skid rows, the best known of which was New York City’s Bowery. Such spaces became more than urban poverty zones. Over time, they came to define the people who lived there. Howard will lend insight into the meaning of homelessness and poverty in twentieth-century America and offer us a new perspective on the modern welfare system.

Comments

Georgia Historical Society 501 Whitaker Street Ella Howard, Assistant Professor of History

Recommended Citation

Howard, Ella, "Homeless: Poverty and Place in Urban America" (2014). A Moveable Feast (2013-2017). 12.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/armstrong-moveable-feast/12

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.