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 | Storming Caesar's Palace: How Black Ms Fought Their Own War on Poverty by Annelise Orleck Paperback, 376 Pages, Published 2006 ISBN-10: 0-8070-5031-8 / 0807050318 ISBN-13: 978-0-8070-5031-6 / 9780807050316 It was a spring day on the Las Vegas strip in 1971 when Ruby Duncan, a former cotton picker turned hotel maid, the mother of seven, led a procession. Followed by an angry army of welfare mothers, they stormed the casino hotel Caesars Palace to protest Nevada’s decision to terminate their benefits. T | |