Abstract
This chapter discusses the contributions of African American social worker Opal C. Jones through the Neighborhood Adult Participation Project (NAPP). Jones fought against racial discrimination by criticizing poor people’s lack of representation in the federal antipoverty agency, and contesting notions of “appropriate female roles” practiced by the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO), and the Economic and Youth Opportunities Agency of Greater Los Angeles (EYOA). She also used the NAPP to challenge the meaning of “maximum feasible participation” and accused EYOA of not truly representing the poor.
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